Stevenson’s army, August 24

– WaPo has the third in its series of major articles on the Ukraine war, this about the battle for Kyiv.  Here’s the takeaway article.-

– AP says US to announce today $3 Billion more aid to Ukraine, but it doesn’t use presidential drawdown authority, so deliveries will be slow.

-AP has latest on Iran nuclear deal, but also reports Israeli opposition.

Armed Forces and Society, the premier journal on civil-military relations, has just released an excellent special issue on the war in Afghanistan.

– Among the analyses: Risa Brooks says COIN didn’t work given the ethnic groups and tribes. Ori Swed says contractors weren’t properly used. Don Travis says the Afghans were improperly trained. Will Atkins of USAFA says the US military followed Huntington’s ideas and shouldn’t have.  And there’s more…

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