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Stevenson’s army, January 21

– WSJ says US allows Baltics to transfer arms to Ukraine.

– FT says Taliban threatens Pakistan.

Oath Keepers were armed for insurrection.

Fred Kaplan analyzes Biden’s Ukraine gaffe.

– NYT says US special forces bombed a dam in Syria on “no hit” list. Senior officials had denied attack.

– In FA, SAIS prof Hal Brands says US is overstretched militarily.

– More  on CIA assessment of Havana Syndrome.

– China demands end to foreign FONOPs.

On the 80the anniversary of the Wannsee conference,NYT remembers.  I’ve been to the place where the meeting occurred.  Here are the minutes of the meeting.

My SAIS colleague Charlie Stevenson distributes this almost daily news digest of foreign/defense/national security policy to “Stevenson’s army” via Googlegroups. I 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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