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03 October 2024










Reuters | Israel calls for evacuations from south Lebanon as explosions heard
in Beirut
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Israel's military urged residents of over 20 towns in south Lebanon to
evacuate their homes immediately on Thursday as it pressed on with an incursion
after suffering its worst losses in a year of fighting the Iran-backed armed
group Hezbollah.

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ABC News | The US is sending a few thousand more troops to the Middle East to
boost security
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The U.S. is sending a “few thousand” troops to the Middle East to bolster
security and to defend Israel if necessary, the Pentagon said Monday. The
announcement follows word that Israel has already launched limited raids across
the border into Lebanon.The additional forces would raise the total number of
troops in the region to as many as 43,000.

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Fox News | Pentagon plans to shrink US 'footprint' in Iraq, but declines to
say by how much
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The Pentagon <[link removed]> has
finalized plans to wrap up the U.S.-led mission to fight ISIS by next year,
with many U.S. troops leaving the bases they have occupied for much of the past
two decades. The Biden administration insists their plan is not to fully pull
out of the nation but declined to say how many of the 2,500 troops currently
stationed in Iraq will remain.

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Associated Press | The fall of Vuhledar is a microcosm of Ukraine’s wartime
predicament
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The fall of a front-line town
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nestled atop a tactically significant hill is unlikely to change the course of
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underscores Kyiv’s worsening position, in part the result of firm Western red
lines, military officials and analysts said.

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CNN | Russia captures key eastern Ukrainian town, exposing Kyiv’s critical
vulnerabilities
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Russia has captured the key eastern Ukrainian
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resistance and underscoring the scale of Kyiv’s challenge as it heads into its
third wartime winter.

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Military Times | VA employees improperly viewed health records of both VP
candidates
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Multiple Department of Veterans Affairs employees improperly accessed the
veterans records of vice presidential candidatesTim Walz
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andJD Vance
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in recent months, prompting a U.S. Department of Justice investigation.

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Responsible Statecraft | Why are we paying $2M each for these missiles?
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Since the United States government decided it had an obligation to protect
global shipping from Houthi attacks in the Red Sea over 7,000 miles away from
its borders, it hasspent well over $1 billion
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defense and dropping bombs on the militants’ assets in Yemen.

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Military.com | 1,000 Active-Duty Soldiers Called Up to Assist with Hurricane
Helene Response
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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Wednesday mobilized 1,000 active-duty
soldiers to assist in recovery and relief efforts in communities hit by
Hurricane Helene -- one of the most devastating storms in recent history.

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Stars & Stripes | VA rolls out virtual ER exams to compete with community
hospitals and urgent care centers
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The VA is rolling out a telehealth emergency care program nationwide that will
connect veterans using their cellphones with a VA triage nurse who evaluates
their problem and directs them to appropriate care, VA Secretary Denis
McDonough said.










TIME | The U.S. Should Fully Withdraw From Iraq
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| Daniel R. DePetris
After negotiating for most of the year, U.S. and Iraqi officials finally
reached a deal on Friday over the U.S. presence in Iraq—one that is frankly
long overdue.

Although U.S. officials insist that Washington won’t be pulling all 2,500
troops out of the country and arehesitant
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to use the term “withdrawal
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,” the U.S. will be thinning out its deployment over the next two years.

Foreign Policy | How Congress Can Reclaim Its Role in U.S. Foreign Policy
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| Geo Saba
The authors of the U.S. Constitution were all too aware
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monarchs, many of whom plunged countries into ill-advised wars. In aletter
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Jefferson, James Madison said, “The constitution supposes, what the History of
all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most
interested in war, and most prone to it. It has accordingly with studied care,
vested the question of war in the Legislature.”

Responsible Statecraft | Disabled refueler exposes fragility of US mission in
Middle East <[link removed]> |
Kelly Beaucar Vlahos

A U.S. Navy oil tanker running aground off the coast of Oman isn’t a huge
event. The fact that it is the only tanker to refuel American warships in a
Middle East conflict zone, is.

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In fact, this only underscores the fragility of the Navy’s logistic systems at
a time when the U.S. has chosen to lean in on an aggressive military posture
when it may not have the full capacity to do so, and it may or may not be in
the national interest for the Navy to be conducting these operations in the
first place.










Realism in Practice Report: CVA Policy Director Tyler Koteskey has written a
new report on how the foreign policy principles of realism and restraint should
guide a new path for U.S. strategy abroad. “Realism in Practice
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” argues that policymakers have lost focus on protecting vital national
interests since the end of the Cold War, overusing the U.S. military and
running up massive amounts of debt at home. Because of these factors, the
report argues that the President will need to realign U.S. foreign policy goals
with our available resources. We can avoid strategic overstretch by asking more
of our allies and rediscovering the value of creative diplomacy and economic
engagement, focusing our military resources where they matter most. You can
read the reporthere
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