North Korea has been active the past few weeks, launching a set of cruise missiles (probably just coastal defense systems) and a separate set of ballistic missiles (which look like stretched KN23 short-range ballistic missiles) a few days later. But these events were received very differently by the Biden administration and analysts. Jeffrey, Aaron, and …
Britain Increases Its Defense Spending and Shortchanges Its Future
by | 2021-03-22 | No Comments
Quote of the week: “Anyone attempting to understand why there has been no third world war confronts a problem not unlike that of Sherlock Holmes and the dog that did not bark in the night: how does one account for something that did not happen?” – John Lewis Gaddis How have we evaded major war …
The Well-Read Wonk
by | 2021-03-16 | 1 Comment
Quote of the week: “That which can be named must exist. That which is named can be written. That which is written shall be remembered. That which is remembered lives.” — Egyptian Book of the Dead Moving on to the next fight over nuclear weapons and arms control is necessary, sometimes all consuming, and work/life …
Making the Easy Stuff Hard: Re-joining the JCPOA
by | 2021-03-10 | No Comments
Biden campaigned on rejoining the JCPOA, but some of that enthusiasm has dried up since he took office. Aaron and Jeffrey debate what’s going on, strategies for negotiating re-joining the JCPOA, and the fallacy of letting the perfect get in the way of the good as people begin to advocate for “waiting for a better …
