Eliot A. Cohen
Contributing Writer at The Atlantic
Professor at JHU SAIS; Arleigh Burke chair at CSIS. Contributing writer @TheAtlantic. Personal opinions only; retweets do not imply agreement.
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3 weeks ago |
citywatchla.com | Eliot A. Cohen
THE STATE OF THINGS - Isn’t it remarkable how little attention is being devoted to Los Angeles’s $1 billion deficit? Shouldn’t the claxons, alarms, sirens, and strobe lights be going off? Especially considering that Karen (smiley face) Bass failed to secure a $1.9 billion bailout from her Democratic sisters and brothers in Sacramento?
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3 weeks ago |
theatlantic.com | Eliot A. Cohen
It is a blessing for this troubled country that the semiquincentennial of its struggle for independence is upon it. Indeed, some notable anniversaries have already slipped by: In September 1774, delegates from Suffolk County, Massachusetts, approved a set of resolves rejecting Parliament’s authority, which were then endorsed by the first Continental Congress. In November of that year, the provincial Congress of Massachusetts authorized the enlistment of 12,000 troops.
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4 weeks ago |
citywatchla.com | Eliot A. Cohen
THE STATE OF THINGS - The Oak Tree Hotel, formerly known as the Rodeway Inn, was initially built in 1949 and has since become a run-down fleabag motel. Recently, the hotel was best known for having luxury cars, with young women in them and older “gents” pulling into the parking area for brief, one assumes, consensual interludes. It also had a short-lived flirtation with infamy when a well-known rapper, Stephen 'Twitch' Boss, chose this location to commit suicide.
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1 month ago |
smallwarsjournal.com | Eliot A. Cohen
JAGs Alone Can’t Defend Rule of Law by Dan Maurer is published by Lawfare. Here’s how LTC Dan Maurer starts off his piece:“In February, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth fired the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the chief of naval operations, the vice chief of staff of the Air Force, and the three service judge advocates general (TJAGs).
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1 month ago |
rsn.org | Eliot A. Cohen
We’ve tried before. It didn’t work out. When I served as counselor of the State Department, I advised the secretary of state about America’s wars with Iraqi insurgents, the Taliban, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and al-Qaeda. I spent a good deal of time visiting battlefields in the Middle East and Afghanistan as well as shaping strategy in Washington.
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A 250 year old knapsack, and this moment. https://t.co/uWYIsNCP9J @theAtlantic
The Trump administration has many peculiar national security ideas. Among the many bad ones, this is one of the worst. @TheAtlantic https://t.co/iObEwweCvR
RT @TheAtlantic: “There are, as Donald Trump and Don Corleone might put it, two ways of doing this: the easy way and the hard way,” writes…
