“Openness” should be the US foreign policy post-Trump, authors say
The country is at a moment of opportunity, Lissner said, “if the U.S. can muster the will to turn this moment of political destruction into political creation.”
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U.S. foreign policy needs to reflect rise of Russia and China, senator says
Republican Sen. Josh Hawley said that the U.S. government should take middle-class interests into consideration when crafting foreign policy, especially when it comes to trade.
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Strong alliances, global investments key to China challenge
An assistant secretary of defense warns that the cost to the U.S. of complacency toward China could be “extremely high.”
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STRATEGY FOR EXTREMIST PREVENTION RELEASED IN BIPARTISAN REPORT
Members of the Task Force to End Extremism in Fragile States met with Democratic and Republican lawmakers on Tuesday to share the latest report on preventing extremism abroad.
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COUNTERINTELLIGENCE OFFICIALS CAUTION LAWMAKERS ON ISIS, SYRIA TROOP WITHDRAWAL
U.S. counterterrorism officials warned lawmakers Wednesday that ISIS and Al-Qaeda remain a threat to national security despite efforts to disrupt their networks.
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BIPARTISAN GROUP INTRODUCES BILL TO END U.S. SUPPORT FOR WAR IN YEMEN
A joint resolution to quickly end U.S. support for the Saudi-backed forces at war in Yemen was reintroduced on Wednesday after failing to receive a vote in the Republican-controlled House last year.
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INTEL OFFICIALS SINGLE OUT CHINA AND RUSSIA AS MAJOR THREATS TO CYBERSECURITY
Foreign interference in U.S. elections and social media warfare are the primary threats facing Americans in 2019, the nation’s top intelligence officials told senators Tuesday at an annual hearing on “Worldwide Threats.”
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War monitor: More than 6,000 civilians died from anti-ISIS coalition strikes
Two war monitoring groups question the accuracy of civilian death reports from the U.S.-led coalition operating in Iraq and Syria.
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Jim Webb praises populism at home, realism abroad
Jim Webb, the former U.S. senator, secretary of the Navy and brief candidate in the Democratic presidential primary, delivered the keynote address at The American Conservative’s Nov. 15 symposium, where his outsider sensibility and skepticism of U.S. military intervention abroad found warm welcome among the foreign policy scholars and writers in attendance.
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On a razor’s edge
The relationship between Washington and Moscow today is more fraught with tension and uncertainty than it has been since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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