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Stevenson’s army, June 9

– How many wars are we in today? WH releases latest war powers report.

– Watson Institute at Brown criticizes defense spending.

– There’s a fight over sending troops to Haiti. US wants a UN force; author argues against it.

– Corruption leads US to cut aid to Ethiopia.

– Another Discord leak from WaPo: Saudi prince threatened severe economic pain on US

– Effort to label Wagner a terrorist group fails.

– FT has details of Iranian drones to Russia.

– NYT says satellites saw dam explosion.

Florida man goes to jail for keeping classified documents.  No, a different Florida man.

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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