Stevenson’s army, January 23

-Politico reports attacks on Houthis.

-Defense Priorities analyzes the options.

– Fred Kaplan  is encouraged by emerging Gaza peace plan.

– RollCall sees Palestinian aid as an issue.

-Semafor says Israel want 2km no man’s land in Gaza

– Iran hawks Gerecht and Takeyh say Iran doesn’t want a war

– NYT worries about tipping point in Mideast conflicts

– FP’s Steve Walt says in terms of foreign policy, it doesn’t matter whether Trump or Biden wins

– New reports on Trump on Ukraine and Trump on Taiwan [from Politico’s China Watcher:

TRUMP WON’T COMMIT TO TAIWAN’S DEFENSE: The likely Republican candidate in the November U.S. presidential election, Donald Trump, refused to commit to a U.S. defense of Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion attempt.

Publicly declaring his position on Taiwan’s defense would put him in “very bad negotiating position” with Beijing, Trump said in a Fox News interview on Sunday.  Trump laced those comments with complaints about the self-governing island’s dominance of the global semiconductor supply chain. “Taiwan did take all of our chip business … they took our business away. We should have stopped them. We should have taxed them. We should have tariffed them,” Trump said.

Lawfare summarizes new cyber laws.

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