Week of August 27, 2018 Archives

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Monday, August 27
Philippine President Says Buying U.S. F-16 Jets ‘Utterly Useless’
Jim Gomez, AP
Israel Buys Rockets 'That Can Reach Anywhere in the Middle East'
Haaretz
India Approves $6B Military Spend As Asian Arms Race Escalates
Amy Kazmin, FT
Is the U.S. Supporting Kurdish Insurgents Against Iran?
Xander Snyder, GPF
Europe Takes a Second Look at Conscription
Elisabeth Braw, Wall Street Journal
The International Army Games Are Decadent and Depraved
Mark Galeotti, For. Policy
ISIS Is Ready for a Resurgence
Hassan Hassan, The Atlantic
Macron's New Push for United EU Defense
The Local
Foreign F-35 Users Spend Millions to Keep Secrets Safe
J. Trevithick, The WarZone
Why States are Turning to Proxy War
Daniel Byman, The National Interest
Navigating the Syrian Endgame
Carl Bildt, The Strategist (ASPI)
Head of Islamic State in Afghanistan Killed
Reuters
World Court Hears Iran Lawsuit to Have U.S. Sanctions Lifted
Reuters
China Steps up Courting of Africa Ahead of Summit
T. Takahashi, Nikkei Asian Review
UN: Myanmar Generals Should Face Genocide Charges
Nick Cumming-Bruce, NYT
Tuesday, August 28
Poland’s Population Problem
Jacob L. Shapiro, Geopolitical Futures
Huntington’s Legacy
Francis Fukuyama, The American Interest
Europe’s Dog Days of Summer
Ana Palacio, Project Syndicate
The Future of War: A History
Wavell Room
Can India Help the United States Against China?
Oriana Skylar Mastro, Lawfare
For Germany and the EU, a Summer Respite Nears Its End
Adriano Bosoni, Stratfor W.
Making Sense of the Fizzle in the U.S.-N. Korea Negotiations
A. Panda, Diplomat
BRI Could Be a Silk Road for the Drug Trade
J. Coyne & R. Moore, The Strategist (ASPI)
Endless Intervention: The Great Danger of Convergence
Bryan T. Baker, Small Wars J.
Trump Reaches Revised Trade Deal With Mexico
Ana Swanson, et al., New York Times
Russia Eyes Role in Formation of Syria’s National Defense Forces
Al-Monitor
Transnational Jihadism and the Aggregation Problem
Barak Mendelsohn, WotR
Toward A Smaller, Smarter Force Posture in the Middle East
Defense One
North Korea Warns Pompeo Denuclearization Talks Are 'at Stake'
CNN
Iran Signs Deal With Syria to Deepen Military Cooperation
Asa Fitch, et al., WSJ
Wednesday, August 29
Europe’s Bid to Take Back Control From Trump May Have to Wait
Bloomberg
There’s a New Global Ranking of Gun Deaths
Laura Santhanam, PBS Newshour
Russian Flotilla Appears Off Syria
Joseph Trevithick, The WarZone
What We’re Reading: Finding Peace in Acceptance and War
Geopolitical Futures
Bangladesh Justified to Arrest Photojournalist
Sajeeb Wazed, RealClearWorld
Free Shahidul Alam, Photographer of the 'Majority World'
Maia Hibbett, The Nation
The World Isn’t Prepared to Deal With Possible Genocide In Myanmar
The Atlantic
How China Is Trying to Dominate the Middle East
Owen Daniels, The National Interest
Belt and Road: China’s Biggest Brand
Merriden Varrall, The Interpreter
Haley Warns Iran Could Become 'the Next North Korea'
Uri Friedman, Defense One
Pentagon Officials Shrug Off Latest Iranian Persian Gulf Threat
Ben Werner, USNI
Russia Deploys Military Ships to Syria Armed With Kalibr Cruise Missiles
DN
Standing up for the UN
Dominique Moisi, The Strategist (ASPI)
Iran Says to Maintain Military Presence in Syria Despite U.S. Pressure
Reuters
War Crimes Report Threatens U.S. Support for Yemen War
Jack Detsch, Al-Monitor
Thursday, August 30
The Plan to End the Korean War
Uri Friedman, The Atlantic
Venezuela Exodus Is a World Crisis
Mark Armstrong, Euronews
Latest Military Exercise Shows ‘kremlin Actively Preparing for a World War’
ER
U.S. Navy Seizes Hundreds of Weapons From Boat in Gulf of Aden
CNN
Why China and Russia Are Obsessed With Vast New War Games
P. Apps, Reuters
Iran Says It Will Block Middle East Oil Exports If It Can't Ship
L. Nasseri, Bloomberg
Canada's Trudeau Says NAFTA Deal Possible by Friday
Damian Paletta, WaPo
Serbia, Kosovo and the Prospect of Partition
Jacob L. Shapiro, Geopolitical Futures
Germany Urges Europe Not to Adopt a 'europe First' Policy
Reuters
New IDF Strategy to Focus on Missiles
Ben Caspit, Al-Monitor
Will Iran Leave Syria?
Mohammed Ayoob, The National Interest
Is the U.S. In a New Cold War With China?
Robyn Dixon, Los Angeles Times
Understanding Terrorism Is More Than a Numbers Game
Ben West, Stratfor World.
Trump Accuses China of Stalling Progress With North Korea
BBC News
Nuclear Stability-Cyber Instability: A New Look at an Old Cold War Theory
SWJ
Friday, August 31
Lessons for the EU From the Austro-Hungarian Empire
The Economist
Will There Be a Sea Change in the Middle East?
Norman A. Bailey, Asia Times
New Images Show Iranian Surface-to-surface Missile Facility in Syria
Jerusalem P,
Planning for the Post-trump Wreckage
Stephen Walt, Foreign Policy
Strategic Implications of China’s Belt and Road Initiative
James Bowen, The Strategist (ASPI)
Belgium, Germany Take Over NATO Air Mission in Baltics
Stars and Stripes
'All Take, No Give' Won’t Work with North Korea
Leon V. Sigal, 38 North
Pentagon Adjusts War Games to Cope With Iran Threat
Jack Detsch, Al-Monitor
Japan to Spend Billions on U.S. Missile-Defense System
A. Gale & C. Tsuneoka, WSJ
Chinese Navy Conducts Multiple Drills Near Korean Peninsula
Elizabeth Shim, UPI
EU Will Respond in Kind If U.S. Imposes Car Tariffs: Juncker
Reuters
Merkel Pushes for Investment to Curb Migration in Africa Tour
Deutsche Welle
The Political Economy of the Military in Southeast Asia
Joshua Kurlantzick, Kyoto Rev.
Kremlin Says Putin, Trump Could Hold Talks Three Times This Year
Reuters
Grassroots Leaders Provide the Best Hope to a Troubled World
The Economist
Saturday, September 1
Examining the State of German Identity
Sebastian Hammelehle, Der Spiegel
Taiwan Is Not a Bargaining Chip With China
James Stavridis, Bloomberg
Will Turkey’s 'Strategic Partnership' with Russia Cover Idlib?
Semih Idiz, Al-Monitor
Argentine Peso and Turkish Lira Put Pressure on Emerging Markets
W. Tan, CNBC
Uganda's Treatment of MPs Enabled by Global Indifference
R. Amsterdam, Guardian


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