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Kori Schake
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Leads AEI’s foreign and defense team, author of The State and the Soldier, contributing writer at The Atlantic. 2025-2026 Kissinger Chair at the Library of Congress. Californian. https://www.aei.org/profile/kori-schake/

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Kori N. Schake is an American international relations scholar currently serving as Director of Foreign and Defense Policy at the American Enterprise Institute. She has held several high-level positions in the U.S. Defense and State Departments and on the National Security Council. She was a foreign policy adviser to the McCain-Palin 2008 presidential campaign. Schake is a contributing writer at The Atlantic. She serves on the board of advisors of Foreign Policy Research Institute and the Alexander Hamilton Society. Schake is a member of the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee. .. more

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Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social · Aug 27
I just received my first copy of the book!

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Christopher Miller @christopherjm.ft.com · 2h
Russia has shifted its attacks from energy infrastructure to Ukraine’s transportation arteries, striking highways and railways critical to both civilian travel and military logistics, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Monday.
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Russia shifts focus to Ukraine’s transport routes
Deadly ‘double-tap’ strike on bus carrying Ukrainian miners highlights Moscow’s new tactic
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Dr. Ian Garner @irgarner.bsky.social · 7h
More than 100,000 civilians have been killed in wars over the past 18 months. Brutal, genocidal war is returning to the world. Turns out the liberal world order wasn't so terrible.
International law meant to limit effects of war at breaking point, study finds
Report covering 23 conflicts over last 18 months concludes more than 100,000 civilians have been killed as war crimes rage out of control
www.theguardian.com

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Shashank Joshi @shashj.bsky.social · 8h
Richard Moore: "I’m no longer sitting reading the intelligence, but my sense talking to people is that there is still absolutely zero sign that Putin is serious about negotiating. He obviously will play us along. He will try and spin things out." samf.substack.com/p/putin-is-n...
"Putin is not getting an accurate picture"
This is the second part of our interview with Richard Moore, who from 2020 until last September was Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) also known as “C”.
samf.substack.com

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 16h
Trump suing the U.S. government for $10 billion and then bragging about how he plans to settle with himself makes me realizes Nigerian kleptocrats were babies when it comes to corruption.

This is generational genius in grifting.
Trump Lawsuit Against IRS Puts Him on Both Sides of the Same Case
President Trump’s lawsuit against the government that he runs presents a mind-bending minefield of conflicts that could end with his appointees approving a federal payout to him.
www.wsj.com

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 20h
That moment when you’re reading Thucydides and hit this passage just before the start of the war: “Abstinence from all injustice to other first-rate powers is a greater tower of strength than anything that can be gained by the sacrifice of permanent tranquility for an apparent temporary advantage.”

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Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social · 22h
"Both elected branches seem to have grown uninterested in making political...arguments to the American people, & rely on both active-duty & retired officers to do it for them. Ms. Schake rightly warns that this practice undermines their long-term interest in political supremacy over the military."
‘The State and the Soldier’ Review: Washington’s Worthy Example
The Founders worried that the U.S. could be undermined by a powerful standing army. Civilians needed to be in control.
www.wsj.com

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Ishaan Tharoor @ishaantharoor.bsky.social · 1d
Such is the outrage in Denmark over both Trump’s desire for Greenland and disparaging remarks about NATO that one of the country’s leading newspapers devoted their Saturday front and plenty of room inside to the bios of all 44 Danes slain during NATO missions in support of the US

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Jas Easterly @jaseasterly.bsky.social · 1d
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A great Virginian and American. RIP, Dr. West, with the thanks of a grateful nation. 
Mathematician Gladys West dies at 95. She was a hidden figure behind GPS.
Without the mathematical model that she helped refine, “the extraordinary positioning, navigation, and timing accuracy of GPS would be impossible to achieve.”
wapo.st

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Abe Newman @abenewman.bsky.social · 2d
11/ The other Thucydides Trap in action. US hubris pushes our allies into the arms of the rising power. In other words, Athens beat itself and the US risks doing the same.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/w...
U.S. Allies Are Drawing Closer to China, but on Beijing’s Terms
www.nytimes.com

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Aaron Mehta @aaronmehta.bsky.social · 2d
The State Department announced a new, $6.7B weapons sale for Israel at 530 PM.

Due to family stuff, I hit publish on our story at 7:25.... having missed that at 7:14, the State Department announced a $9B deal to Saudi for Patriot missiles.

Please clap.

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US clears $6.7B in new weapon sales to Israel, $9B in Patriot missiles for Saudi Arabia - Breaking Defense
The Trump administration has approved a potential sale of 30 AH-64E Apache helicopters and over 3,000 JLTV ground vehicles to Israel.
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Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social · 2d
"The day marked the first moment “they had ever had a country, the first flag they had ever seen which promised anything to their people."
jasonhiggins.bsky.social Jason A. Higgins, Ph.D @jasonhiggins.bsky.social · 2d
I’ve long admired Thomas Wentworth Higginson (abolitionist, associate of John Brown, commanded first all Black regiment in the Civil War, literary scholar and editor of Emily Dickinson, feminist, socialist). Someone just published it though! blog.oup.com/2025/02/thom...
Thomas Wentworth Higginson and the freedom jubilee
“Colonel Higginson was a man on fire,” read one obituary. “He had convictions and lived up to them in the fullest degree.” The obituary added that he had “led the first negro regiment, contributed to ...
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Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social · 2d
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college

Values, Technology and Society
Art and the Transatlantic Exchange
Petroleum Engineering
Poetry Writing
Marxist Philosophy (I barely scraped out a C!)
dandrezner.bsky.social Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 2d
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college

Sage, the Way, and Zen
Shakespeare
Religion and Modern Secularism
Creative Fiction Writing
International Political Economy

Pleasantly surprised how many of these classes proved useful later in life.
emayfarris.bsky.social Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 2d
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college

Urban politics
Urban sociology
Mid 20th century U.S. History
Gender and Politics
World History (I'm sorry for sleeping through this at 8am, but the prof was so nice in office hours, I will always pay that forward)

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Jason A. Higgins, Ph.D @jasonhiggins.bsky.social · 2d
I’ve long admired Thomas Wentworth Higginson (abolitionist, associate of John Brown, commanded first all Black regiment in the Civil War, literary scholar and editor of Emily Dickinson, feminist, socialist). Someone just published it though! blog.oup.com/2025/02/thom...
Thomas Wentworth Higginson and the freedom jubilee
“Colonel Higginson was a man on fire,” read one obituary. “He had convictions and lived up to them in the fullest degree.” The obituary added that he had “led the first negro regiment, contributed to ...
blog.oup.com

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 2d
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college

Sage, the Way, and Zen
Shakespeare
Religion and Modern Secularism
Creative Fiction Writing
International Political Economy

Pleasantly surprised how many of these classes proved useful later in life.
emayfarris.bsky.social Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 2d
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college

Urban politics
Urban sociology
Mid 20th century U.S. History
Gender and Politics
World History (I'm sorry for sleeping through this at 8am, but the prof was so nice in office hours, I will always pay that forward)
danvock.bsky.social Dan Vock @danvock.bsky.social · 2d
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college

Calc II
Irish drama
Bertolt Brecht auf deutsch
Poetry writing
Race in America

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Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social · 2d
Keep trying.
sahilkapur.bsky.social Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 2d
👀 Every Senate Democrat + Collins and Murkowski just voted for the Bernie Sanders amendment to repeal the $75 billion in additional ICE funding under Trump’s “big beautiful bill.” The measure failed 49-51.

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 2d
👀 Every Senate Democrat + Collins and Murkowski just voted for the Bernie Sanders amendment to repeal the $75 billion in additional ICE funding under Trump’s “big beautiful bill.” The measure failed 49-51.

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The Economist @economist.com · 2d
Traders are abuzz with talk of the “debasement trade”, a broad term for bets on the deterioration of American financial exceptionalism. If they are right, then the sell-off in the greenback has barely begun econ.st/4kcbL48

Illustration: Satoshi Kambayashi

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 2d
Beijing: “China firmly supports Cuba in safeguarding its national sovereignty and security, and opposes external interference. China resolutely opposes any actions and inhumane practices that deprive the Cuban people of their rights to subsistence and development.”

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Becca Wasser @beccawasser.bsky.social · 2d
The 2026 NDS upends force planning. Homeland and Western Hemisphere first means fewer forward deployments, more reliance on surge forces. But surging depends on access from allies and a force built for China that may not fit new missions.

More on the Terminal: blinks.bloomberg.com/news/stories...

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Dan Lamothe @danlamothe.bsky.social · 3d
And so concludes another week w/ no news briefing at the Pentagon.

The last on-camera briefing was held for an alternative right-wing press corps nearly two months ago, on Dec. 2.

The press space has been mostly vacant since the traditional press corps departed in October.

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Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social · 3d
And Mary Lincoln was the one who noticed General Grant didn’t drink when his wife was with him, recommending she be sent on campaign.
profmsinha.bsky.social Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 3d
And with black abolitionists! She really gets a bad shake from some of these historians like Burlingame who basically concocted stuff about her!

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Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social · 3d
Just 14 days until Cards pitchers and catchers report 🙂 And Yadi’s in the clubhouse! Hope springs eternal…
Golden glove catcher Yadier Molina now in Cardinals management

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 3d
And with black abolitionists! She really gets a bad shake from some of these historians like Burlingame who basically concocted stuff about her!

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 3d
Pew has Trump's approval at 37%. And:

"Only about a quarter of Americans today (27%) say they support all or most of Trump’s policies and plans, down from 35% when he returned to office last year. That change has come entirely among Republicans."

www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...
Confidence in Trump Dips, and Fewer Now Say They Support His Policies and Plans
Only 27% of Americans say they support all or most of Trump's policies – down since last year, with the change coming entirely among Republicans.
www.pewresearch.org

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
Trump: "I just spoke to the president of Venezuela and informed her that we're going to be opening up all commercial airspace over Venezuela. American citizens will be very shortly able to go to Venezuela and they will be safe there. It's under very strong control."

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 4d
The 2026 National Defense Strategy “appears to have been drafted not by serious people but by Pentagon officials eager to curry favor with an imperious president and terrified of getting their talking points wrong,” Eliot Cohen argues.
Whatever This Is, It Is Not Strategy
Defending the nation will take more than sycophancy, slurs, and slop.
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Defense News @defensenews.bsky.social · 4d
Opinion: Perhaps most troubling, the National Defense Strategy ties its framework explicitly to “President Trump’s vision,” mentioning him 47 times across 24 pages.
America can strike anywhere — but can it stay anywhere?
Opinion: Perhaps most troubling, the National Defense Strategy ties its framework explicitly to “President Trump’s vision,” mentioning him 47 times across 24 pages.
www.defensenews.com

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Jason Dempsey @jkdemp.bsky.social · 4d
"It is embarrassing enough that we now threaten ... our closest allies, or that we try to seize land from an ally that has fought on our behalf. But it is beyond shameful and despicable to denigrate and disrespect their sacrifice as Trump has done."

www.defenseone.com/ideas/2026/0...
Our allies passed your test, Mr. President. Would we?
A former U.S. infantryman responds to Trump’s amnesiac take on Afghanistan.
www.defenseone.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
Q: Can you be specific about how many ICE and CBP agents are currently operating in the state?

HOMAN: 3,000. There's been some rotations. They've been in theater a long time. Day after day, can't eat in restaurants, people spin on you, blowing whistles at you. But my main focus now is draw down

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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 4d
Yes it’s called a strategy of denial to deter China in the Pacific yes that’s why the priority is restoring the Monroe Doctrine but in Greenland yes where the only foreign base is already ours yes which is why we’re sending a carrier to the Middle East to bomb Iran yes. I am a strategist yes.
a man with glasses is covering his face with his hand .
ALT: a man with glasses is covering his face with his hand .
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