Strategic Analyst @hcssnl; Strategic studies, civil-military relations, alliances; PhD from King's College London @warstudies; former NATO strategisthcss.nl/expert/davis-e…Joined November 2021
Trump administration formally requests military assistance for Chicago, per memo I obtained.
Read the full document here:
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For the NATO/civ-mil history interested, my King's PhD thesis is now online!
kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/stud…
It features a whole lot of archival and interview sources that haven't been seen before in histories of NATO (which have never really looked internally anyway...)
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Starting this year’s #HCSSsummerbookshelf with a recommendation from Strategic Analyst @davhellison. "One of the best works on the political, cultural, and economic impacts and changes connected to the U.S. global war on terror." Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life by…
Pre-empting the inevitable "see, nobody is bombing North Korea because it has nuclear weapons," I'd note that NK didn't have weapons at some point. US was preparing to attack in 1994, but went with the Agreed Framework instead (which worked despite later unrelated problems). 1/2
The U.S. should not join a war against Iran, and I will ask the Senate to stop such a reckless idea. Have we learned nothing from 20+ years of war in the Middle East?
axios.com/2025/06/14/isr…
Its fun to see the people who have not done archival research before looking at the new JFK files and realising that archives are 90% payslips and insurance forms for federal employees in the 60s.
And then like a random intel report from Vietnam saying the US is going to lose.
Biden and Harris ran for president as the candidates of the system, right down to campaigning with Dick Cheney’s daughter, Liz. They touted her moral rectitude even as most of the country knew the Cheneys for sponsoring foreign policy disaster.
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Russia is developing nuclear-armed satellites to destroy other satellites.
When this news broke, it struck me as not good. The more I think about it, the worse it becomes.
My latest for @CarnegieEndow, @carnegienpp: "Space Nukes Are Bad."
carnegieendowment.org/posts/2024/10/…
If Iraq is any guide, most of those advocating for a larger regional war to "remake the Middle East" will suffer none of the consequences of the conflict. They will opine and tweet comfortably from green rooms while average Americans, Arabs, Persians, and Israelis bear the costs
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