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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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Nadège Rolland @rollandnadege.bsky.social · 1h
The SCO Summit showcased China's leadership role within an institution it created. Less known but more impactful to its southeastern #Borderlands, is the Lancang Mekong Cooperation created in 2015. Learn more about it in the following essay by Hoang Thi Ha.
strategicspace.nbr.org/chinas-state...
China’s Statecraft through the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation: Building a Sino-Centric Regional Order - Mapping China's Strategic Space
The Mekong Basin—spanning China upstream and Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam downstream—fits squarely within the “strategic frontier” concept. Nadège Rolland defines a strategic frontie...
strategicspace.nbr.org

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Reuters @reuters.com · 3h
Exclusive: European financial stability officials are debating whether to create an alternative to Federal Reserve funding backstops by pooling dollars held by non-US central banks in a bid to reduce their reliance on the US under the Trump administration, sources say reut.rs/47OPvJf

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Noah Barkin @noahbarkin.bsky.social · 3h
A strong new signal from Merz: “We have decided within the government that everywhere it’s possible we’ll replace components, for example in the 5G network, with components we have produced ourselves. And we won’t allow any components from China in the 6G network.”

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Germany to Ban Huawei From Future 6G Network in Sovereignty Push
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Chinese suppliers such as Huawei Technologies Co. will be excluded from the country’s future telecommunication networks on security grounds as he pushes for more ...
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 6h
"Before November ends, Russia will probably suffer its millionth casualty since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, based on current trends of about 1,000-1,200 soldiers killed or injured every day."
Vladimir Putin’s sickening statistic: 1m Russian casualties in Ukraine
His regime uses payouts to salve Russian families’ grief
www.economist.com

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🥧🍁 Peter Peter Pumpkin Pie Eater 🥧🍁Lucier @peterlucier.bsky.social · 7h
Why are National Guard litigation watchers all busting out early 1900s dictionaries and fretting about "regular forces?"

And why are fears about the Insurrection Act being invoked swirling in the ether again?

Brian Sutherland breaks down the statutory argument

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“Those are regulars, by God!”
The White House itself explains why it should lose the National Guard litigation, but what comes next may be worse.
www.activevoice.us

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Shashank Joshi @shashj.bsky.social · 1d
I wrote on the UK's reported suspension of some intel sharing with the US on legal grounds. I spoke to several former intel officials & all agreed that they could not think of a comparable case over decades. Some expressed serious concern over retaliation www.economist.com/britain/2025...

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 1d
Here's what people don't get about H1B in tech: it's already a globally competitive labor market. The question isn't whether foreign tech workers will compete with American ones - they will - but whether they will hold their jobs and spend their incomes here or abroad.

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Caitlin Talmadge @proftalmadge.bsky.social · 1d
Civil-military relations again rears its head as a key variable in the generation of authoritarian military power...
Good quotes from @josephtorigian.bsky.social here
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/w...
Xi’s Military Purges Show Unease About China’s Nuclear Forces
www.nytimes.com

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🥧🍁 Peter Peter Pumpkin Pie Eater 🥧🍁Lucier @peterlucier.bsky.social · 1d
An old friend broke a world record today. Most miles in a wheelchair in a single day - 152. Previous record was 113.

Mike Egan. One of the kindest, most natural leaders I know.

Congrats Mike. You make us proud.

Mike's insta: www.instagram.com/mj_egan/

Story: www.msn.com/en-us/news/w...

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Brad Duplessis @bradduplessis.bsky.social · 2d
Keeping it real on Veterans Day. Told my therapist that deployments were some of the best and worst days of my life; and that I served w/some of the best — and worst — people I know.

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Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social · 2d
My terrific sister, Kristina Schake, gets a shout out on @theresthistory.bsky.social!
Screen shot of the Rest Is History episode with Disney CEO Bob Iger

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 2d
3 years ago today, the armed forces of Ukraine liberated Kherson.

Ever since, Russia has done everything in its power to make the city uninhabitable.

From across the river, they relentlessly bombard Kherson with glide bombs, artillery, and drones.

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Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social · 2d
A touching remembrance on Veteran’s day from @ctreese2.bsky.social
ctreese2.bsky.social Travis Reese (One of Many-Gravity's Rainbros) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 2d
After one deployment & couple of days before sending the Marines out on leave, I was doing a fireside chat with a small group. As we talked about how to assess the time I said "This was less than a year of your life. A defining time, but if statistics hold, you'll live many more. We saw<

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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 2d
The first woman to serve with the elite SEAL Team Six as a troop commander has had her orders revoked just days before she was supposed to take over a new command.
Pentagon Pete Accused of Ousting Hero Who Was First Female in SEAL Team Six
The Navy captain’s orders were revoked just days before she was supposed to take over a new command.
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The Economist @economist.com · 2d
Our analysis shows that a reported dip in arrivals this year may be a mirage
Despite claims, foreign students have not yet been put off America
Our analysis shows that a reported dip in arrivals this year may be a mirage
econ.st

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Travis Reese (One of Many-Gravity's Rainbros) @ctreese2.bsky.social · 2d
After one deployment & couple of days before sending the Marines out on leave, I was doing a fireside chat with a small group. As we talked about how to assess the time I said "This was less than a year of your life. A defining time, but if statistics hold, you'll live many more. We saw<

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 2d
Predictable and predicted.

www.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...
www.cnn.com

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Natasha Bertrand @natashabertrand.bsky.social · 2d
NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...
edition.cnn.com

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🥧🍁 Peter Peter Pumpkin Pie Eater 🥧🍁Lucier @peterlucier.bsky.social · 2d
The military isn’t made for law enforcement!

But also murder and / or other crime are state crimes, not federal laws, and so true or not, and regardless of the wisdom of using the military this way, such crime is not sufficient to satisfy the factual predicates of 12406(3)

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Marietje Schaake @marietjeschaake.bsky.social · 2d
This Veterans Day, Americans may like to know a wide coalition of Dutch political parties in Limburg are fighting back against the removal of 2 panels commemorating black veterans at Margraten US WOII cemetery ↘️ www.dutchnews.nl/2025/11/call...
Calls for permanent memorial in Limburg to black US liberators - DutchNews.nl
Provincial councillors in Limburg have called for a permanent memorial to black American servicemen to be erected next to the US war cemetery in Margraten after it emerged that panels commemorating th...
www.dutchnews.nl

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 2d
"an unusual mass deportation to a country with a poor human rights record that the United States had bombed earlier this year in an effort to set back its nuclear program"

but we're sending them back dissidents "who repeatedly told American authorities that Iran would persecute them"
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“For decades, Iranians fleeing persecution have found protection in the United States. But this fall, the Trump administration deported a planeload of people to Iran after making a deal with Tehran.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/w...
‘It Feels Like I’m in a Nightmare’: Inside the First Deportation Flight to Iran
www.nytimes.com

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 2d
The Zeiten, they are wending.

61% of Germans say their country invested too little in its military capabilities.
66% say we relied too much on the US for our security.

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Patricia Zengerle @reuterszengerle.bsky.social · 2d
“As of November 5th, it estimated that U.S.A.I.D.’s dismantling has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.” www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
www.newyorker.com

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Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social · 3d
“The shift under Mr. Patel has struck directly at the Five Eyes relationship through the removal of senior agents who spent years fighting Islamic extremists or blunting counterintelligence threats alongside operatives from allied countries.”
F.B.I. Director Is Said to Have Made a Pledge to Head of MI5, Then Broken It
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Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social · 3d
A great read on warfare: www.goodreads.com/book/show/25.... General Marshall sent Colonel Reeder to interview Vandegrift in 1942 so the US Army could prepare for the swing to the Pacific after the war was won in Europe.

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Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social · 3d
Happy birthday, Marines. You inherit and preserve a valuable legacy.
General Vandegrift, commander of the 1st Marine Division at Guadalcanal

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Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social · 3d
Love this poignant story from @peterlucier.bsky.social
peterlucier.bsky.social 🥧🍁 Peter Peter Pumpkin Pie Eater 🥧🍁Lucier @peterlucier.bsky.social · 3d
Why does being a Marine matter? Why are we all so crazy about it?

Listen my children, and you shall hear, a tale from the bad days of Afghan relocation, and how being a silly Marine changed lives.

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🥧🍁 Peter Peter Pumpkin Pie Eater 🥧🍁Lucier @peterlucier.bsky.social · 3d
Why does being a Marine matter? Why are we all so crazy about it?

Listen my children, and you shall hear, a tale from the bad days of Afghan relocation, and how being a silly Marine changed lives.

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NK Finney @nathankfinney.com · 3d
Get 44% off the book if you order now!

www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

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Matt Sebastian @mattsebastian.com · 3d
The U.S. Air Force Academy's academic accreditation is under review following a formal complaint that the institution no longer has sufficient Ph.D.-level faculty as the federal government reduces its civilian workforce // Story by @thenoellephillips.bsky.social
Air Force Academy’s accreditation under review after cuts to civilian faculty
Concerned alumni and former faculty told The Denver Post they believe the academy is losing too many civilian Ph.D.-level instructors without the ability to replace them with qualified military mem…
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