Tag: sanctions

Stevenson’s army, November 22

Iran team captain Ehsan Hajsafi Sunday:

– Erdogan may attack in Syria.

– Russia may have false flag attack in Belarus.

– WSJ says US is pressing allies on Russia sanctions.

– There is an intelligence authorization bill this year.  More details here.

– Fred Kaplan analyzes nuclear weapons programs.

– Legistorm reports on privately funded congressional overseas travel.

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Stevenson’s army, November 21

– US wants expanded military presence in Philippines

– Germans consider subsidies to avoid trade war with US

Iran helps Russia build drones, WaPo says.

– Russia has growing debt problem

– And the tech sanctions are hurting, too, says FP

House GOP targets the Pentagon

– US pressures Netanyahu over defense appointment

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Stevenson’s army, November 17

NYT has neat graphic showing where each party gained and lost seats.

House GOP began revising rules.

Sen. Schumer must have convinced Sen. Feinstein to step aside, for Sen. Murray will become president pro tempore.

WSJ says Iranian drones use US parts.

Likely speaker McCarthy wants delay in NDAA consideration.

New SIGAR report lists failure of Afghan government and US policies.

Corrected link: Russia sanctions have long term damage.

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Stevenson’s army, November 16

Both my internet service and I have been out of commission the last few days, so I’ve missed lots of Stevenson’s army and other things. I’ll try to keep up now:

– Polish deaths blamed on errant Ukrainian air defense missile.

-New Congress will have almost 100 military veterans.

Congressional commission on China urges trade policies. It’s new annual report is here.

– GAO hits US military aircraft readiness.

-Chicago prof says Russia sanctions are doing long term damage.

Russia lost UN GA vote on Ukraine.

– Lawfare argues for repealing 2002 AUMF.

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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Stevenson’s army, October 12

– NYT says US cut sanctions on Cyprus to get it to transfer Russian weapons to Ukraine.

– Max Fisher says bombing capitals doesn’t win wars.

– SAIS prof Hal Brands warns against defeating Putin.

– Nate Cohn admits problems in polling.

Charlie later added these bonus items:

At long last, the Biden administration  has released its required National Security Strategy Report. Here’s the text. And here’s is Jake Sullivan’s briefing on it.

Remember, these documents always sound good and reasonable. But some sentences will be quoted like scripture to win interagency debates.

There was a good history of these reports by Paul Lettow in TNSR last year. He served on the Bush 43 NSC.

A Brookings analyst warns we’re on the path to nuclear war.

WSJ says Ukraine is running circles around Russia.

Tom Ricks draws on his new book arguing that the civil rights movement used military tactics in this criticism of  US generals. [I guess he wants them to read his book.]

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Stevenson’s army, October 8

– WaPo says Ukraine admits hitting Russian bridge to Crimea.

– Biden order tightens rules on drone strikes.

– Another order tries to limit Chinese access to US semiconductors.

– Also new sanctions on North Korea.

– And there’s now an official Arctic Strategy.

– Commerce has draft rule for new category of bad guys — Foreign Adversaries.

– New Yorker reviews new books on CIA with great headline, Has CIA done more harm than good?

-Fred Kaplan discusses nuclear options.

– UNC prof reminds that Hitler gained power legally.

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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