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Stevenson’s army, October 16

– NYT says many veterans now running for Congress aren’t centrists, but are pro-Trump anti-interventionists.

– Atlantic has an excerpt from another new book about January 6 with great detail about how the congressional leadership acted that day.

– Lawfare analyzes new executive order on signals intelligence.-

– Dan Drezner analyzes Putin’s decisions.

– NYT says Erdogan threatens Greece.

Charlie offered this yesterday:

– Carl Hulse wonder why so many Senators are leaving.

– GOP tries to block State’s “China House.”

– GOP wants to investigate think tanks.

– Scott Sagan has wise ideas for preventing a nuclear war.WSJ says Xi prepares for conflict with US

– Belarus under pressure to help Russia more.

– SAIS prof Paula Thornhill says civilians will decide Marine Corps future.

– State wants help from Silicon Valley.

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, with occasional videos of my choice. 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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