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1 month ago | 
thedispatch.com | Charlotte Lawson |James Sutton |Michael Warren |Rebeccah Heinrichs
World Events A text thread involving top U.S. officials reveals a rift in what role the U.S. should play abroad. By and Published March 25, 2025 Scroll to the comments section Audio versions are only available to subscribers of The Dispatch. Join Today! to listen to this post. Happy Tuesday! We all fumble with our phones’ various apps occasionally.
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1 month ago | 
thedispatch.com | Sarah Isgur |Rebeccah Heinrichs |Keith E. Whittington
‘This was an existential threat to the firm.’ By and Published March 25, 2025 Sarah Isgur and David French give us an update on the Paul Weiss legal drama and the frontal attacks on the law firm from the Trump administration. Plus, video dissents and a bill tackling injunctions.
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1 month ago | 
thedispatch.com | Rebeccah Heinrichs |Charlotte Lawson |James Sutton |Theo Prouvost
President Donald Trump wants a lasting peace in Europe after Russia’s war against Ukraine. And he also wants the United States to remain the world’s superpower, and for NATO to be stronger, not weaker. To help secure those goals, the United States must remain the leader of the NATO alliance. But there are reports that new advisers inside the Pentagon are advocating for the president to surrender a key U.S. military role, that of Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR).
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1 month ago | 
thedispatch.com | Michael Warren |Rebeccah Heinrichs |Charlotte Lawson |Grayson Logue
What does J.D. Vance have against Europe? A lot, apparently. There’s a clear through-line in the vice president’s contempt for Europe—from many of our individual allies to multinational organizations like the EU and NATO. That much was clear from his comments in the recent group text thread among senior administration officials that Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg was (incredibly) included on.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
providencemag.com | Miles Smith |James Diddams |Rebeccah Heinrichs |Marc LiVecche
Donald trump has nominated Army Major Pete Hegseth to be the next Secretary of Defense. The Princeton-educated Fox News TV personality and former soldier served in Iraq and Afghanistan before resigning his commission in protest over the army’s supposed unfair treatment of soldiers with politically conservative views. Hegseth is interesting because he is the first potential cabinet secretary in almost a century to wed unambiguously Protestant Christianity with his understanding of warmaking.
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Nov 24, 2024 | 
nypost.com | Rebeccah Heinrichs
The Biden administration last week announced that it granted Ukraine permission to use American weapons to hit Russian military targets inside Russia. Great. But a less risk-averse administration committed to enabling its ally to repel Russia and end the war quickly would’ve done that from the start. And the move follows a frustrating pattern of delays and denials, helping Ukraine just enough so it doesn’t collapse but bringing us no closer to the war’s end.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
tandfonline.com | Rebeccah Heinrichs |Keith Payne
Advanced search Comparative Strategy Latest Articles Submit an article Journal homepage Full Article Figures & data Citations Metrics Reprints & Permissions Read this article /doi/full/10.1080/01495933.2024.2409051?needAccess=true Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1 This review is adapted from, Keith B. Payne, “Literature Review,” Journal of Policy & Strategy, Vol. 4, No. 3 (Fairfax, VA: National Institute Press, 2024), pp. 105–107. 2 Ronald Sider and Richard...
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Joseph Roche |Rebeccah Heinrichs |Sarah Isgur
‘We also know that foreign policy isn’t decided only by the president,’ one solider says. Published October 22, 2024 DONBAS, Ukraine—In the fading light of a late October day, Philippe, a soldier with the 68th Brigade, speeds down the road in a small pickup, trying to dodge drone strikes. Beside him, Oleksander, 31, grips an assault rifle tightly, hanging on for dear life to one of the truck’s grab handles.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Rebeccah Heinrichs |Kevin Williamson |Chris Stirewalt |Sarah Isgur
Policy A Dispatch symposium. Published October 8, 2024 Editor’s Note: Although partisans on both sides of the aisle have warned that the stakes of the upcoming presidential election could not be higher, the two campaigns themselves have been remarkably light on policy substance.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
wng.org | Rebeccah Heinrichs
Years of restraint have given way to a culminating punishing assault by Israel, and now it is eliminating Hezbollah’s top leadership in Lebanon. It should not come as a surprise that Israel is thumbing its nose at the Biden administration, which urged it to negotiate a deal with the Iranian-supported terror group rather than escalate the war in the Middle East.
