– Former SAIS prof Mara Karlin, stepping down at DOD
– WaPo reports Chinese cyber attacks on US infrastructure
– NYT says US & Ukraine are working on a new strategy
– Economist has valuable report on Indian military, including strategy, organization, deployments, and civil-military tensions
– NBC says promised US-Chinese military hotline still hasn’t been started
– New NDAA, expected to pass this week, will allow some military program starts despite normal CR blocks
– French analyst explains internal Hamas debates–
And this from Legistorm:
Time to hand out those holiday bonuses: The average House personal office is on track to end the year with more than $360,000 left in its annual operating budget.
The average House personal office used just 61% of its office budget in the first nine months of the year, according to a LegiStorm analysis. That puts each office on pace to use 81% of its budget by the year’s end, leaving close to $363,000 unspent per office.
The personal average office ended 2022 with 10% of its budget left unspent, or more than $176,000.
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