Stevenson’s army, October 12

– NYT says US cut sanctions on Cyprus to get it to transfer Russian weapons to Ukraine.

– Max Fisher says bombing capitals doesn’t win wars.

– SAIS prof Hal Brands warns against defeating Putin.

– Nate Cohn admits problems in polling.

Charlie later added these bonus items:

At long last, the Biden administration  has released its required National Security Strategy Report. Here’s the text. And here’s is Jake Sullivan’s briefing on it.

Remember, these documents always sound good and reasonable. But some sentences will be quoted like scripture to win interagency debates.

There was a good history of these reports by Paul Lettow in TNSR last year. He served on the Bush 43 NSC.

A Brookings analyst warns we’re on the path to nuclear war.

WSJ says Ukraine is running circles around Russia.

Tom Ricks draws on his new book arguing that the civil rights movement used military tactics in this criticism of  US generals. [I guess he wants them to read his book.]

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