Tag: Greece

Stevenson’s army, December 9

-Economist says Netanyahu isn’t the real leader of the war cabinet

US & Guyana are conducting joint military exercises.

Greece and  Turkey make nice.

– NYT says Europe fears NATO withdrawal by Trump

– WSJ says Israel has plotted grid for Gaza

-Politico has a report on the meeting pressuring Tuberville

– SAIS’ James Mann has a piece about the myths Kissinger created about himself

– Two recent CRS reports: on FY2024 State/Foreign Ops appropriations and a big background report on IEEPA

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Stevenson’s army, July 13

I’ll be away for several days and unable to curate the news. Here are a few items for today:

F16s to Turkey may depend on F35s to Greece.

– WSJ says several Russian officers have been “detained”

– Here’s the list of amendments still up for action by the House on the NDAA

– RollCall says House appropriations committee allows first pay raise since 2009

– Dan Drezner ponders why Biden’s low approval

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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.

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Stevenson’s army, October 5

– Two civ-mil analysts use cases to explain why civilians defer to military advice.-

– Foreign policy analysts warn against declaring Russia a terrorist supporting state.

– A retired  colonel says our 4 star officers need replacement.

– A retired Marine colonel says cable news shows should be banned on military bases.

-A Carnegie analyst says bad relations between Germany and Poland are hurting Ukraine.

– BBC notes criticism of Russian military by Russians.

– WSJ says Russia is using Iranian drones very effectively.

– Fred Kaplan says Musk’s “peace plan” won’t work now.

Then Charlie added:

Why wait? These are interesting.

US & Europe are trying to get an anti-Russia vote in the UN General Assembly.

Erdogan might be getting ready for war with Greece.

FP says US is cracking down on Paraguay.

CRS says NDAA may contain provisions on cyber personnel.

National Security Archive touts its document file on Cuban missile crisis.

And I was wrong in class about PAYGO. It’s still on the books, has been routinely cancelled each year, but this fall faces a $100 billion automatic sequester unless Congress agrees to cancel it again.

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Stevenson’s army, March 26

– Some Senators want NSA to spy inside USA

-HFAC votes repeal of 2002 AUMF.

Chinese planes harass Taiwan.

Saudis drill with Greeks.
I’ve noticed that many news media now spell the term for the Turkic people in Xinjiang Uyghur instead of Uighur. And it’s supposed to be pronounced oy-gher instead of wee-gher. Get with the new program.
We talked in class about the budget deficits. WaPo has a easy way to raise money.
CNAS has a new sanctions newsletter.

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Stevenson’s army, September 30

After last night’s dispiriting display of socially-distanced mud wrestling, let’s turn to something completely different.
Two bipartisan congressional reports on important national security matters: a House panel on future defense and a task force report on arms control.
WSJ reports how China is taking control of various international organizations.
A retired Navy captain writes about Chinese actions in the Taiwan strait.
US Navy has moved ship to help Greece against Turkey.
SAIS profs Barno and Bensahel preview their new book about military adaptation.
Russian Duma goes remote because of Covid infections.

My SAIS colleague Charlie Stevenson distributes this almost daily news digest of foreign/defense/national security policy to “Stevenson’s army” via Googlegroups. I plan to republish here. 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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