Mark Tempestilli, CAPT, #USNavy (Retired): #NationalSecurity & #DefensePolicy, #Strategy & #Foresight, #Military & #Maritime Operations. Artist. Baseball fan.
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So far, Kim Jong Un is slowly, but surely working his way through his 8th Party Congress military modernization wishlist—so we should remember that multiple warhead ICBMs and solid propellant ICBMs were also on that list.
It’s quite appropriate to disagree, but calling the 2500-troops option “fundamentally disingenuous” is basically characterizing three Generals and the SecDef (who all recommended it) as the same. Come on, man!
"There are some going back to the issue of whether or not we should have left #Afghanistan who imagined that there was sort of a middle option that we could have kept 2,500 troops there" per @RepAdamSmith
Calls those pushing that option "fundamentally disingenuous"
Looking forward to this…
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When @USEnvoyIran @Rob_Malley spent years arguing that pressure on the clerical regime in Iran doesn’t work, you can forgive the regime for believing that his “Plan B” threat is meaningless.
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Iran rejects U.S. demand for U.N. inspectors' access to nuclear site reut.rs/2Y6sLTQ
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Iran’s approval last week for full membership to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) sends a clear message to Washington
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The United States has approached China about the latter’s crude oil imports from Iran, seeking to pressure Iran into nuclear deal negotiations through its biggest oil client
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#USNavy creates new destroyer group, “Task Group Greyhound” (a sometime destroyer nickname) to hunt #Russia’s #submarines in the #AtlanticOcean.
I can’t help but wonder why #P8 Poseidon aircraft aren’t involved? Are there too few?
@MalShelbourne/@USNINews
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@USNINews @MalShelbourne @samlagrone Please consider following up on this. The announcement of TG Greyhound offers little in the way of rationale or tradeoffs, nor what other mix of platforms may – or should – have been considered.
#USNavy #NavalAviation #MaritimePatrol #MPRA
I am struggling to wrap my head around why the US would even explore this as a real option (if report is accurate).
.@WSJ report says #Russia’s #Putin offered US forces use of Russian bases in Central Asia to cover #Afghanistan during June mtg w/#POTUS. It’s unclear if he was serious but CJCS #Milley asked his counterpart about it last week.
–@LadyPutz/
@Diplomat_APAC
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…apparently, so are some lawmakers. (Nor should it be conflated with a “hot line”)
–@EllenEMitchell/@thehill
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.@WSJ report says #Russia’s #Putin offered US forces use of Russian bases in Central Asia to cover #Afghanistan during June mtg w/#POTUS. It’s unclear if he was serious but CJCS #Milley asked his counterpart about it last week.
–@LadyPutz/
@Diplomat_APAC
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Panel: Australian Nuclear Sub Deal 'Went Terribly Wrong' with America's NATO Allies - USNI News
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Athens, then. Beijing, now.
“Right…is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.”
The Necessity of #AUKUS by Chris Patten/@ProSyn
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#China #UK #Australia #IndoPacific #natsec project-syndicate.org/commen…
Bad actors team up: #Iran and #Venezuela strike #oil export deal
By Deisy Buitrago & @MariannaParraga, @MattSpetalnick/@Reuters
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U.S. reentry into "arenas of competition" through structures such as #AUKUS and the #Quad should give Asian countries the confidence to stand up to #China, H.R. McMaster, Donald Trump's former national security adviser, told Nikkei.
Hudson Japan Chair @LTGHRMcMaster: #AUKUS should be welcomed at today's #QuadSummit.
Read his interview in @NikkeiAsia to learn more:
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“Analyst Katia Glod thinks that #Russia will try to replace #Lukashenka slowly, without formal annexation, and that time is on Moscow’s side.”
Kostyugova is one of the hundreds of thousands of Belarusians who have fled their country since 2020. “My mother is in prison. I’m in exile. I didn’t expect this. But without, we didn’t understand the value of human rights & democracy,” Kostyugova affirms. atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/uk…
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MUST READ | South Asia Center Non-resident senior fellow @AtmanMTrivedi provides timely analysis on the new quad of #USA #India #Austrailia & #Japan focusing on key issues moving forward.
Read Full Analysis here:
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