Stevenson’s army, February 4

– President Biden makes major foreign pol;icy speech this afternoon during visit to State Dept.

-Politico reports how he spends his days.

– WSJ notes that his China advisers are a “team of rivals.”

– The Axios weekly China report summarizes the many proposed approaches to China.

Last year Congress created an Afghanistan Study Group, probably with the intent or expectation that outside experts would question the Trump policy of rapid withdrawal. That’s how it worked out. The full report is here.
And the troop withdrawals from Germany are now on hold.
The Senate has approved a power-sharing arrangement much like what was done in 2001. Democrats now control the committee agendas. Here’s the new list of Democratic members.
New resource on congressional redistricting.

CNAS has a bunch of reports on Iran.

National Security Archive has compiled declassified report on Rumsfeld’s notorious snowflakes.

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