** Weekly Round-Up
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** Quincy news highlights
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** September 19, 2021
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** UPCOMING WEBINARS
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After Afghanistan, Does the U.S. Need
Bases In the Middle East at All?
Tuesday, September 21
1:00pm-2:00pm Eastern

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President Joe Biden’s declaration that the withdrawal from Afghanistan puts an end to “an era of major military operations to remake other countries” adds further urgency to the question of what America’s military footprint in the Middle East should be. This is a central element in Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s forthcoming global posture review.

But does the United States need to have any permanent military bases in the Middle East at all? Not according to former Pentagon advisor Eugene Gholz, who argues in a Quincy Institute brief entitled Nothing Much to Do: Why America Can Bring All Troops Home From the Middle East ([link removed]) that core U.S. interests in the region are safe, and as a result, the United States should begin significant withdrawals from the region and eventually close down all permanent bases there.

Join us for a debate between Gholz and Kirsten Fontenrose, former Senior Director for the Persian Gulf at the National Security Council, on the future U.S. military footprint in the Middle East. QI's Trita Pars will moderate.
Has Making Wars More ‘Humane’ Helped Make Them Endless?
Monday, October 4
10:00-11:00am Eastern

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Have efforts to make war more ethical — to ban torture and limit civilian casualties — only shored up the military enterprise and made it sturdier? That is the controversial argument Professor Samuel Moyn makes in his new book Humane ([link removed]) . Moyn, a professor at Yale University and Non-Resident Fellow at the Quincy Institute, looks back at a century and a half of passionate arguments about the ethics of using force. Humane is the story of how America went off to fight and never came back, and how armed combat was transformed from an imperfect tool for resolving disputes into an integral component of the modern condition. As American wars have become more humane, they have also become endless, he argues.

To discuss his thesis, Moyn will be joined by Princeton's Gary Bass, author of Freedom’s Battle: The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention ([link removed]) . Their conversation will be moderated by the QI's Kelley Beaucar Vlahos.


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Gen. Milley Revelations Highlight Need for New Rules on Starting Nuclear War
By Andrew Bacevich, President
Los Angeles Times, 9/16/21

Although President Biden has expressed his continuing confidence in Milley, his clear duty is to fire the general forthwith.

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Vindicating Realist Internationalism
By Anatol Lieven, Senior Research Fellow
Survival, 9/16/21

Lieven takes on professors Daniel Deudney and John Ikenberry's defense of U.S global hegemony justified in the name of liberal democracy.

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AUKUS’ Military Alliance Is Another Western Attempt to Isolate China
By Sarang Shidore, Non-Resident Fellow
Responsible Statecraft, 9/17/21

The ever-denser web of military interconnections that Washington is weaving is going to lead straight to cold war.

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A War on Terrorism: At What Price?
By Gordon Adams, Distinguished Non-Resident Fellow
The American Prospect, 9/14/21

$5.84 trillion has already been spent. But the human costs go much deeper.

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Biden’s Broken Promise on Yemen
By Research Fellow Annelle Sheline & Bruce Riedel
Brookings Institution, 9/16/21

While Biden may not be able to end the war, he can end America’s complicity in it.

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What Can We Learn From the War in Afghanistan?
By Rajan Menon, Non-Resident Fellow
The Nation, 9/16/21

Four lessons worth considering.

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** MORE. MORE. MORE.
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RADIO: Korea is a Ticking Time Bomb ([link removed]) , Interview with Senior Research Fellow Jessica Lee, Freedom Works Radio, 9/17/21

TELEVISION: U.S. and Australian Officials Discuss AUKUS Pact ([link removed]) , Interview with Research Associate Ethan Paul, Al Jazeera, 9/16/21

PODCAST: Andrew Bacevich vs The Blob ([link removed]) , Interview with President Andrew Bacevich, Hot Wash/RealClear Defense, 9/16/21

Biden Bids to Break U.S.-China Deadlock ([link removed]) by Phelim Kine/ Quoted: Research Associate Ethan Paul, China Watcher/Politico, 9/16/21

RADIO: Averting a Nuclear Arms Race Between North and South Korea ([link removed]) , Interview with Senior Research Fellow Jessica Lee, Background Briefing/KPFK, 9/15/21

Intelligence Contract Funneled to Pro-War Think Tank Establishment ([link removed]) by Lee Fang/ Quoted: Investigative Journalist at Large Eli Clifton, The Intercept, 9/15/21

Were the U.S. and China Really on the Brink of War Last October? ([link removed]) by Research Associate Ethan Paul, Responsible Statecraft, 9/15/21

Lockheed Martin Ads Resurface on Politico Foreign Policy Newsletter ([link removed]) by Managing Editor Benjamin Armbruster, Responsible Statecraft, 9/14/21

Who Do They Think They Are? Israel Tells U.S. to Ease Off Saudi, Egypt Human Rights ([link removed]) by Research Fellow Annelle Sheline, Responsible Statecraft, 9/13/21

Taiwan Rift Remains Despite Xi-Biden Call for Closer Contact ([link removed]) by Eduardo Baptista & Robert Delaney/ Quoted: Research Associate Ethan Paul, South China Morning Post, 9/10/21

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