Weekly Round-Up

Quincy in the news

December 20, 2020

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Lloyd Austin isn’t who you think he is
By Mark Perry, Senior Analyst
Foreign Policy, 12/16/20

It was in 2010, when General Lloyd Austin was head of US Forces in Iraq, that he got to know then-Vice President Biden.

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Biden can end the War on Terror on Day One
By Elizabeth Shackelford, Non-Resident Fellow
The American Prospect, 12/15/20

Even as America’s military footprint has dramatically expanded across two decades, Congress’s war powers have atrophied for lack of use.

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Nuclear weapons are out of control. But Biden can make the world safer.
By Joe Cirincione, Non-Resident Fellow
The American Prospect, 12/17/20

Donald Trump left Joe Biden with a hot nuclear mess. Trump made every nuclear danger he inherited worse by the hawkish policies he and Republicans pursued.

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The new language of forever war-making
By Jacob Silverman/ Featured: Quincy Institute
The New Republic, 12/16/20

“History, unfortunately, is a forever war,” according to Clifford D. May and Bradley Bowman, who seem never to have encountered a war they don’t like.

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MORE. MORE. MORE.

Progressives line up their own national security recruits for Biden by Bryan Bender/ Cited: Executive Vice President Trita Parsi and Non-Resident Fellows Gordon Adams, Joe Cirincione, & Paul Pillar, Politico, 12/18/20
PODCAST: Iran may be Biden’s first foreign policy challenge with Executive Vice President Trita Parsi and Barbara Slavin, Deep Dish -- Chicago Council, 12/17/20
Neocons want us to belly up for one more round of war by President Andrew Bacevich, Responsible Statecraft, 12/17/2
Will the NDAA cross the finish line? By Bryan Bender/ Quoted: Senior Analyst Mark Perry, The Morning Defense -- Politico, 12/17/20
Where do conservatives go on foreign policy now? By Daniel Larison/ Cited; Quincy Institute, The American Conservative, 12/16/20
Review: On Thucydides and China by Priscilla Roberts/ Quoted: Deputy Director for Research and Policy Stephen Wertheim, H-Diplo, 12/16/20
EVENT: The War in Afghanistan: Perspectives from US Veterans with Research Associate Adam Weinstein, Wilson Center, 12/15/20
Hunger in America: On the frontlines of the COVID-19 nightmare by Non-Resident Fellow Rajan Menon, AlterNet, 12/15/20

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