Situation Report

A weekly roundup of news related to national security, defense, and cybersecurity, brought to you by Foreign Policy journalists Jack Detsch and Robbie Gramer. This newsletter was previously known as Security Brief.

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Vance Travels to India With High Stakes

1 day ago | foreignpolicy.com | Michael Kugelman

South Asia Brief News and analysis from India and its neighboring countries in South Asia, a region home to one-fourth of the world’s population. Delivered Wednesday.
Inside the Industries Enabling Dirty Money in London

6 days ago | foreignpolicy.com | Marie Le Conte

Corruption Europe London, you may be aware, is the place to be if you’re a shadowy individual with piles of ill-gotten money who wishes to, ideally, shield said ill-gotten money from view. This has been a popular topic in investigative nonfiction for some time now.
Ecuador Election: Noboa Wins With Pro-Trump Campaign

6 days ago | foreignpolicy.com | Catherine Osborn

Latin America Brief A one-stop weekly digest of politics, economics, technology, and culture in Latin America. Delivered Friday.
Is Israel Preparing for a Long-term Occupation of Gaza?

1 week ago | foreignpolicy.com | John Haltiwanger |Rishi Iyengar

Situation Report A weekly digest of national security, defense, and cybersecurity news from Foreign Policy reporters John Haltiwanger and Rishi Iyengar. Delivered Thursday.
How Trump Tanked Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's Fortunes

1 week ago | foreignpolicy.com | Justin Ling

U.S. Foreign Policy Elections In 1999, Pierre Poilievre, then a 20-year-old commerce student at the University of Calgary, pulled an all-nighter to enter a national essay contest with the prompt, “As prime minister, I would…” Poilievre titled his submission “Building Canada Through Freedom” and filled it with libertarian gusto, saying he would “relinquish to citizens as much of my social, political, and economic control as possible.” Although he did not win the competition, he was a finalist....
Trump's Tariffs, Trade Policies Are Undercutting His Reshoring Goals

1 week ago | foreignpolicy.com | Keith Johnson

Economics United States China In the annals of overestimating one’s trade leverage and then inflicting own-goals, the Confederacy’s 1861 embargo on the exports of its one product—cotton—in the hopes of coercing foreign countries into supporting the nascent nation always held pride of place. Until this spring.
Trump’s Tariffs: How Far Will the U.S.-China Trade War Go?

1 week ago | foreignpolicy.com | Ravi Agrawal

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U.S. Power Was Built by Experts, but Trump Is Throwing It All Away

1 week ago | foreignpolicy.com | Jeremi Suri

Geopolitics Security United States The Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz famously wrote that war is a “mere continuation of policy by other means,” but he did not mean that war is merely politics.
Trump Trade War Complicated By Chinese Tech Supply Chains

1 week ago | foreignpolicy.com | Rishi Iyengar |Lili Pike |Christina Lu

Science and Technology United States China Rishi Iyengar Christina Lu Lili Pike The flurry of on-again, off-again tariffs that U.S. President Donald Trump has unleashed have thus far exempted the semiconductor chips that power much of the modern economy. That may be about to change.
U.S. Eyes Pakistan’s Mineral Wealth

1 week ago | foreignpolicy.com | Michael Kugelman

South Asia Brief News and analysis from India and its neighboring countries in South Asia, a region home to one-fourth of the world’s population. Delivered Wednesday.