– Former CJCS Dunford and Harvard prof Graham Allison stress need for nonpartisan military.
– RAND analyst says we need to revise our war games to get useful results.
-WaPo says new cyber strategy has real teeth.
– TNSR article shows how hard it is to change military doctrine. [because of bureaucratic politics]
– Hawley relents on DOD nominees after TikTok deal.
– Appropriators question USAF budget plans.
– Corporations gave to election deniers, despite promises.
– Newsweek spreads rumors about Putin illness.
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).
A war criminal can die, while the ideology that made him a hero survives. That…
We are witnessing a new variation on Milan Kundera’s famous *The Joke*: “Optimism is opium…
It is high time to get on with the serious business of governing, which includes…
Belgrade talks the talk, takes the EU money, and does nearly nothing. It is time…
Allowing the powers that be in the region to reach their own equilibrium, with US…
Trump has promised an agreement with Iran that can't be reached while Iran and Oman…