Informal Institute for National Security Thinkers and Practitioners
Quotes of the Day:
“The Americanization of the war can, from the military point of view, succeed, but the Americanization of the peace, of daily life, can only serve the Viet Cong with terrorist objectives and propagandist arguments against ‘American hegemony in Vietnam.’”
“… the Americans are winning everything—except the war.”
- Moshe Dayan
“Everything we say, everything we do, and everything we fail to say or do will have its impact in other lands.”
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
“The very massiveness of our intervention actually reduced our leverage. So long as we were willing to use U.S. resources and manpower as a substitute for Vietnamese, their incentive for doing more was compromised.”
- Komer, Bureaucracy At War.
1. Inside the Afghanistan airlift: Split-second decisions, relentless chaos drove historic military mission
2. U.S. Spent Billions on Afghanistan and Failed to Build a Sustainable Economy
3. Opinion | China’s thuggery in the case of the ‘two Michaels’ shows its contempt for conventional diplomacy
4. U.S. Asked Russia About Offer of Bases to Monitor Afghan Terror Threat
5. Marine officer who blasted leaders over Afghanistan withdrawal now in the brig
6. The Secret War Over Pentagon Aid in Fighting Wildfires
7. What the Allegations Against Chairman Milley Really Mean
8. How ‘wonder material’ graphene became a national security concern
9. Biden’s pivot to Asia is missing something: diplomats
10. Republican lawmakers warn against more military coordination with Russia
11. America is highly vulnerable to a missile attack
12. Biden hit with backlash over removal of Pentagon’s top nuclear policy official
13. Decisive Defeat: Why the U.S. Strategy for Afghanistan Didn’t Work
14. The Taliban didn't change — it adapted to the (dis)information age
15. The price of immigration bureaucracy is risking lives
16. AUKUS: Good Goals, Bad Implementation
17. The Kremlin’s Strange Victory: How Putin Exploits American Dysfunction and Fuels American Decline
18. To Deter China, Relearn The Lost Art of Dissuasion
19. Misinformation Is About to Get So Much Worse
20. Afghanistan probably never stood a chance, reports show
21. China power crunch spreads, shutting factories and dimming growth outlook
22. War Between the U.S. and China is Coming
23. Rapid and Radical Adaptation in Counterinsurgency: Task Force 714 in Iraq
24. Xi Takes a Page From Mao’s Red Playbook
25. Biden’s Predetermined Withdrawal Leaves Both Afghanistan and Western Coalitions in Tatters
26. Succeeding Xi Jinping
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