Month: November 2021
Stevenson’s army, November 5
– African militaries embrace coups.
– Leahy says GOP threatens year-long CR.
– Administration approves first, big arms sale to Saudi Arabia.
Misleading reporting: I noticed a lot of attention to the high “wrong track” polling numbers as explanations of political developments. Not significant any more, if they ever were. There have been only 3 times in the last 50 years when a majority DIDN’T say US was on the “wrong track.”
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Stevenson’s army, November 4
-For a couple of decades, Congress has asked DOD to send an annual report on Chinese military power. The latest was released Wednesday. Here’s WaPo’s summary.
– The real power in the House is in the Rules Committee, which is making its own changes to the Budget Committee compendium bill.
– Fred Kaplan predicts a compromise on the purpose of nuclear weapons.
– A congressman suggests” 9 eyes” sharing intelligence, which is obviously more than 5.
-WaPo reports a cyber retaliation.
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Stevenson’s army, November 3
– Big night for GOP. It will have consequences, but observers are divided. Good summary from WaPo.
– Administration argues over “sole purpose” of nuclear weapons.
– Joe Nye says we shouldn’t call competition with China a cold war.
– Sen. Hawley, whose defense staffer was at our brownbag, has new bill for Taiwan aid.
– Good resources: while looking for something else, I discovered excellent recent CRS report on NSC and UVa site listing key staff in WH and NSC.
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Stevenson’s army, November 2
– Russian troops near Ukraine border.
– Prof. Brands discusses how war might start with China.
– FEC allows foreign money for ballot fights.
– IG says US rarely enforced conditions on Afghan aid.
– Shocking poll reveals strong anti-democratic feelings, support for violence against opponents, and more. 2/3 of GOP believe election was stolen from Trump.
– Biden promises to fight for F16s to Turkey.
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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Stevenson’s army, November 1
-WaPo released — on line, not yet in print — a major, lengthy report on Jan 6 events.
– Military jury condemned torture.
– WSJ article correctly notes that “groupthink” is a pejorative term, but often good in practice.
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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