Day: June 18, 2021

Stevenson’s army, June 18

-Congress and administration fight over cyber jobs.

-Pentagon considers sending troops back to Somalia.

-Covid locks down Kabul embassy.

-Defense One writers call PDI a slush fund.

-House votes to repeal 2002 Iraq AUMF.  [Hello. It’s the 2001 AUMF that has been stretched beyond the breaking point.]

-Ronan Farrow wonders if Blinken can rebuild the State Dept

-WSJ says US & EU are cooperating on emerging technologies.

-Rand analyst says US should understand what defeat in war means.

My SAIS colleague Charlie Stevenson distributes this almost daily news digest of foreign/defense/national security policy to “Stevenson’s army” via Googlegroups. I plan to republish here. To get Stevenson’s army by email, send a blank email (no subject or text in the body) to stevensons-army+subscribe@googlegroups.com. You’ll get an email confirming your join request. Click “Join This Group” and follow the instructions to join. Once you have joined, you can adjust your email delivery preferences (if you want every email or a digest of the emails).

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