Stevenson’s army, August 27

Daniel Levy is President of the US Middle East Project, where you can find his full statement of August 25:

– NYT says Ukrainian civilian leaders want an offensive to break out of the current stalemate but military want to delay until new weapons are in hand.-

– WaPo has journal of Russian officer who has turned against the war.

– NYT has more background about US military in Syria.

– NYT explains concerns over humint information in Trump documents.

– NYT also has good chronology of the case.

– Fascinating annotated version of the FBI documents are in both NYT and in WaPo.

– In FP, Matthew Kroenig says IR theory predicts a great power war.

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