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When Congress conducts oversight over defense policy, whom does it call to testify? In @TXNatSecReview , @jblankshain, @DerekSReveron, & I present a new dataset of over 6,500 witness appearances between 1975 & 2016 to explore how Congress exercises control over the military (1/7)
The first article of Volume 8, Issue 2 is here! Read about what Blankshain (@jblankshain), Milonopoulos (@MilonopoulosT), and Reveron (@DerekSReveron) call "Congress’s underappreciated role in exercising civilian control over the armed forces." tnsr.org/2025/03/called-to-t…
After a lacerating indictment of those who overly sanitize or glorify the ghastly experience of war, Paul Fussell ends “Wartime” (1989) with this observation on Eisenhower’s quiet leadership on the eve of the D-Day landing, without the benefit of hindsight, 80 years ago:
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Wondering if it’s time to revive my “International Relations Concepts as Seen on ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’” and turn it into a paper with @eriklg.
Congratulations to you, Nymphia Wind @66wind99, for being so accomplished in the difficult art form of drag, and for being the first Taiwanese to take the stage and win on @RuPaulsDragRace.
Right after being crowned queen, you said “Taiwan, this is for you.”
Taiwan thanks you for living fearlessly.
"In 50 years will this all be declassified?" asks @taylorswift13 in the lyric video for "The Smallest Man in the World," which unfurls like an unredacted doc. She may get them at the 25 year mark, according to E.O. 13526, or use MDR/FOIA cc: @USNatArchives youtube.com/watch?v=Atdzfj8L…
Our special episode of The Debrief featuring the Honorable Rahm Emanuel, @USAmbJapan, in conversation with @FPRI_Orbis & myself during his visit to @NavalWarCollege, is now available for viewing here:
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It was a pleasure co-hosting an insightful conversation with @USAmbJapan alongside @FPRI_Orbis with students & faculty at the @NavalWarCollege, where Ambassador Emanuel reflected on U.S.-Japan relations and his distinguished career in public service.
It was a pleasure co-hosting an insightful conversation with @USAmbJapan alongside @FPRI_Orbis with students & faculty at the @NavalWarCollege, where Ambassador Emanuel reflected on U.S.-Japan relations and his distinguished career in public service.
@USAmbJapan Rahm Emanuel visited campus today and participated in a panel discussion on U.S.-Japan relations & multilateral security cooperation in the Pacific. Thank you, Ambassador, for helping strategically prepare our naval, joint, & interagency leaders for the future!
Dr. Snow’s latest publication is titled, “The Snowballing Effects of Spending Freezes,” which examines the diminishing snowball stockpile and the prospects for people-penguin partnerships to rebuild the defense iceberg base.
This is among the most accurate depictions of my holiday season with @lancerichardson #merrymerry
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Can’t help but hear this in my head to the tune of Bowser’s ballad, “Peaches,” in @supermariomovie
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Happy #NationalCookieDay!
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Jumping back on here to clarify that @jblankshain reached the traditional threshold of statistically significant Swifties on Spotify***
(I’ll let everyone argue over p-values in the comments.)
Was pleased to move from the top 2% to the top 1% of Taylor listeners on Spotify, and then @jblankshain showed up in my DMs saying she’s in the top 0.05%. Guess we know who is the true Swiftie in our office. We’re both the problem. It’s us.
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Was pleased to move from the top 2% to the top 1% of Taylor listeners on Spotify, and then @jblankshain showed up in my DMs saying she’s in the top 0.05%. Guess we know who is the true Swiftie in our office. We’re both the problem. It’s us.
Today the @SenateRules Committee will mark up a resolution to break Sen. Tuberville's hold on over 450 military promotions. The res. would temporarily suspend the Senate's rules on these nominees & allow almost all to be confirmed in one large batch (1/8) thehill.com/homenews/senate/…
If adopted, the resolution would bring to an end a monthslong standoff that has eroded military readiness, politicized the military promotions process, & threatened to undermine civilian control over the armed forces, as I argued in @ForeignAffairs (2/8) foreignaffairs.com/united-st…
In @lawfare, current & former @sosh faculty Jake Barnes, @z_e_griffiths, @slimbock, & @leerobinson2022 present new data suggesting GOFO promotion delays appear to be driven as much by peculiarities of the Senate recess calendar as by nomination holds (1/4) lawfaremedia.org/article/sen…
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The same drawn-out Congressional calendars have inhibited the on-time passage of NDAA spending bills, leading to an average delay of 43 days after the start of the fiscal year since the 1970s, according to the Congressional Research Service (2/4) crsreports.congress.gov/prod…
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In @ForeignAffairs, I argue the Senate standoff over Defense Department nominations forces an overreliance on acting officials, politicizes the military promotions process, & threatens to undermine civilian control over the armed forces. (1/12) Link: foreignaffairs.com/united-st…
Since February, Senator Tommy Tuberville has imposed a blanket hold on senior military promotions and DoD nominations in protest of a travel policy helping servicemembers to access reproductive care outside of states where they're stationed (2/12) Link: politico.com/news/2023/10/08…
Clearly @OscarTheGrouch was closely monitoring the CR debate over the weekend.
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In the debut episode of "The Debrief," @jblankshain, associate prof. & FPA sub-course director at NSA (& mastermind behind the video series title), joins @FPRI_Orbis to discuss analytical tools refined in their textbook our students use in the course (1/2) youtube.com/watch?v=ZqV8tzG1…
This conversation draws from the analytic perspectives developed in their @CambridgeUP textbook, which draws on academic approaches to foreign policy analysis (FPA) & equips practitioners with toolkits for understanding foreign policy decision-making (2/2) cambridge.org/highereducatio…
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We at the National Security Affairs Dept at @NavalWarCollege are soft-launching a new video series called "The Debrief," where @FPRI_Orbis & I will be speaking with scholars & practitioners about enduring & contemporary developments in world affairs (1/4) youtube.com/watch?v=cVcorTHv…
This week, I spoke with @DerekSReveron & @FPRI_Orbis about their @FPRI essays calling for new thinking on the relationship btw geography & security. They propose a transoceanic concept that reorients strategy along oceanic over land-based boundaries (2/4) fpri.org/article/2023/07/geo…
Rounded out my presidential library marathon with a visit to the @NixonLibrary, where I got to see some newly released documents opened just in the last few weeks!
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