Chris, Melanie, and Zack discuss Gavin Wilde’s recent article in the Texas National Security Review on foreign media manipulation. How vulnerable are citizens of democracies to manipulation through social media? Is a more open and less hierarchical media space a national security threat? And what, if anything, should policymakers in democracies do about this issue? Grievances for China blocking popular apps, Marjorie Taylor Green for her shenanigans surrounding the foreign aid vote, and to the F-35, the gift that keeps on giving (to the tune of $2 trillion); Attas for Samuel Charap and Sergey Radchenko for an important article on Ukraine, to Mike Johnson for taking a principled stand on the foreign aid bill, and to the first Australian officers to participate in AUKUS nuclear submarine training.
This episode's reading.
Turkey's More Independent Foreign Policy
One Year of War in Ukraine
Learning Lessons from Ukraine: Is Defense Dominant?
Looking Back at President Biden's Foreign Policy
Debating the Defense of Taiwan
The Risks of Nuclear Proliferation in Asia
Making Hard National Security Choices
Why The United States No Longer Leads on Free Trade
Debating the National Defense Strategy
Assessing the National Security Strategy
Searching for the Elusive Rules-Based Order
Military Lessons from the War in Ukraine
Galvanizing America's Defense Industrial Policy
Not Their Plane to Land: Generals Thwarting the Chain of Command?
Is U.S. Support to Taiwan Substantive or Symbolic?
Is NATO's Vision for Its Future Right?
Active Denial or In Denial?
An Energy Strategy to Defeat Russia?
Is Biden's Approach to Latin America a Problem?
Musings on Competition in the Pacific
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