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Dec 11, 2024 | 
csis.org | Daniel Byman |Seth Jones |Jude Blanchette
There is a lack of U.S. and international attention to systematically assessing Taiwan’s resilience and developing a comprehensive assistance plan to improve it. Taiwan’s geopolitical, technological, and economic importance in the Indo-Pacific region has made it a focal point of U.S. strategic interests, especially in countering Chinese influence and aggression. Taiwan has taken important steps to strengthen resilience over the last several years.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
realcleardefense.com | Seth Jones
The U.S. Is Losing the Ability To Deter War With China Seth Jones The Wall Street Journal November 27, 2024
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
myemail.constantcontact.com | Todd Harrison |Seth Jones |Eric Bazail-Eimil |Hu Yuwei
Please note that I may be off the net for a couple of days as I am having cataract surgery in both eyes today. Quotes of the Day:“He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.” – Andrew Carnegie“Change your opinions, keep your principles, change your leaves, keep intact your roots.” – Victor Hugo“In individuals, insanity is rare: but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.”– Friedrich Nietzsche 1.
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
wsj.com | Seth Jones
As war persists in the Mideast, Ukraine’s fight for survival has slipped from the headlines. Yet its efforts grind on, and as I witnessed on a recent visit, its forces are in an increasingly perilous position against their Russian invaders. A palpable sense of anxiety among Ukrainian officials has replaced the optimism of 2022 and 2023. To grasp what is at stake, we must assess how a Russian victory might materialize and what such an outcome would mean for the free world.
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Mar 6, 2024 | 
csis.org | Seth Jones |Alexander Palmer
China’s defense industrial base is operating on a wartime footing, while the U.S. defense industrial base is largely operating on a peacetime footing. Overall, the U.S. defense industrial ecosystem lacks the capacity, responsiveness, flexibility, and surge capability to meet the U.S. military’s production and warfighting needs. Unless there are urgent changes, the United States risks weakening deterrence and undermining its warfighting capabilities.
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Feb 25, 2024 | 
myemail.constantcontact.com | Seth Jones |Song Sang-ho |Kim Hyun-bin |Thomas Maresca
I have returned to DC. I should resume my regular news distribution schedule tomorrowQuotes of the Day:"We should measure the prosperity of a nation not by the number of millionaires, but by the absence of poverty, the prevalence of health, the efficiency of the public schools, and the number of people who can [and] do read worthwhile books."– W.E.B. Du Bois "Everything that needs to be said has already been said.
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Feb 21, 2024 | 
wsj.com | Seth Jones
As Congress debates an emergency supplemental bill to aid Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, some lawmakers and pundits insist that the U.S. can pick and choose between opposing China, Russia, Iran and North Korea. It can’t. The growing military, economic and diplomatic cooperation between these countries means that appeasing one of them helps the whole axis of autocracyThe opponents of American assistance come in several flavors.
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Jan 17, 2024 | 
csis.org | Daniel Byman |Seth Jones
The U.S. strikes on the Houthi rebels in Yemen show that the war that began after Hamas launched a brutal terrorist attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, is now a regional conflict. Regional actors, including Iran and the Houthis, want to demonstrate solidarity with Hamas and gain credibility with their constituencies for being part of the anti-Israel struggle. At the same time, however, Iran wants to avoid an all-out war with Israel and the United States.
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Jan 1, 2024 | 
wsj.com | Seth Jones
The good news about U.S.-China relations is that last month the two countries restored military-to-military dialogue after a 16-month rupture. The bad news is that it hasn’t slowed the military buildup in Beijing, which increasingly appears to be on a wartime footing. The U.S. needs to do likewise and reassemble what President Franklin D.
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Jan 1, 2024 | 
wsj.com | Seth Jones
The good news about U.S.-China relations is that last month the two countries restored military-to-military dialogue after a 16-month rupture. The bad news is that it hasn’t slowed the military buildup in Beijing, which increasingly appears to be on a wartime footing. The U.S. needs to do likewise and reassemble what President Franklin D.
