Stevenson’s army, October 22

– At TV town hall, Biden vows to defend Taiwan, then WH tries to walk back statements.

– Reuters says US has had 3 hypersonic missile tests lately.

– Jake Sullivan talked to MBS about Israel.

– Study says Twitter tilts right.

Democrats sometimes gerrymander their own. Here’s an outrageous story about a stealthy redrawing of a district for PG County council to screw a former councilman, term-limited a few years ago, who wants to run now. [I know and like Eric Olson, who used to represent us.]

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).

Charlie issued as well as Friday catchup:

– FP says Turkey wants to buy Russian fighters.

–Turkey threatens ouster of foreign ambassadors.

– FP reports split in Democrats over Taiwan.

– Fred Kaplan has different take on Chinese missile.

– FP says AUKUS worries ASEAN.

-Politico says administration opposes Space National Guard.

– But Senate appropriators added $500 million for Space Force.

– Facebook is really upping its lobbying.

– New reports show climate change threats to national security.

– Why are so many senior Democrats retiring?

– Some members still want to be bipartisan.

History lesson:WaPo says Congress didn’t do good job investigation the 1812 attack on the Capitol.