John, 

As tensions build along the Taiwan Strait and the Ukrainian border, Mike is leading the crucial fight for mission-focused American leadership abroad and is calling for urgency in the race to win the New Cold War.

Catch up on all the top foreign policy headlines from the last month below and add your name to stand against the military’s woke diversity agenda.

TOP STORY

Bottom Line: “‘After two decades of prioritizing counterterrorism operations, our challenge is now to adapt the intelligence community to face the threat posed by the Chinese Communist Party, whose core identity is shaped by the role that intelligence operations and United Front Work played in its ascendency to power within China,’ said Gallagher.”

DEFENDING TAIWAN

Bottom Line: “At present, the United States is on track to lose a war over Taiwan. Yet it is not too late to change course. With the targeted redirection of existing and readily obtainable military resources, effective planning, and the leveraging of crucial alliances, the United States has the capacity to prevent and, if necessary, to win a war over Taiwan as soon as the middle of this decade.”

ADDRESSING MILITARY [UN]PREPAREDNESS

Bottom Line: “[Democrats] want to cut hard power, while investing in progressive projects at home… To add insult to injury, we're now forcing thousands of service members off active duty because they didn't want to get the vaccine or they had a religious objection that was not even considered. And then finally, the Secretary of Defense is forcing wokeness training on everybody on active duty.”

Bottom Line: “Secretary Austin, General Milley, and others claim DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) initiatives will improve battlefield performance, but closer scrutiny of these claims reveal they are building their entire DEI agenda on a foundation of fringe history and shoddy social science. In order to prevent, and if necessary win, wars in the 21st century, the U.S. military must remain a colorblind meritocracy free from radical identity politics and laser-focused on warfighting.”

RUSSIA–UKRAINE TENSIONS

Bottom Line: “Russia has officially kicked off the main phase of huge joint military exercises in Belarus, as Western countries continue to warn Russian forces massing near Ukraine could be used to launch a possible attack. Russia has poured an unprecedented number of troops and equipment into Belarus over recent weeks ahead of the 10-day drills, moving units almost 6,000 miles from its far east and deploying tanks, long-range artillery and advanced fighter jets.”

Thank you for reading this month’s edition of the Foreign Policy Newsletter –– we’ll be in touch soon as we monitor developing stories from around the globe.

–– Gallagher Foreign Policy HQ