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/
Kori Schake
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It’s easy to overlook the importance of allies, partners, and their associated access, basing, and overflight privileges until that support is no longer there.
Worth noting that Donald Trump just announced the end of NATO and the Special Relationship in one tweet.
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Phillips OBrien
1/ The US attempted to send several Iran-bound bombers to an Italian air base without prior authorisation and was refused permission by the Italian government while the aircraft were in flight. The news comes a day after Spain disclosed it was refusing US military overflights. ⬇️
ChrisO_wiki
Really appreciating @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social's defense monitor for @bloomberg.com
Kori Schake
This is grotesque.
At best.
How freedom of navigation—one of the foundational principles of the global order—could not be a core objective is absolutely baffling
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"Land forces can be decisive when used at scale, for the right mission & with a clear political objective. But, without these things, land operations can result in tactical catastrophe, the death of soldiers & marines, & political failure in war." mickryan.substack.com/p/thinking-a...
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Bob Kagan: "American indifference to the European struggle against Russian aggression constitutes a profound geopolitical revolution—perhaps the final disintegration of the alliance relationships established after World War II.”
"What this war exposes, then, is a failure not only of strategy but of literacy."
My new article for the Lowy Interpreter that explores how we might think about the execution and effectiveness of land operations as part of the wider American campaign in Iran.
what a charming tradition, nailing a completed PhD thesis up!
After Trump courts the AfD for a year, they call for unprecedented removal of US bases from Germany. I have never heard a German politician utter these words in public. Now coming from administrations ‘partners’.
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"ICE agents will be stationed outside graduation events for the nation’s newest Marines to identify whether any of their family members are undocumented, according to the Marine Corps."
As the U.S. continues to fight the war in Iran, the Marine Corps has boosted protection measures on bases, requiring everyone to present REAL IDs, passports or birth certificates to access any sites.
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray”
Abe Newman
Today, @axelnordenstam.bsky.social nailed his doctoral thesis to the wall of the department in line with an old Swedish tradition. His thesis is an examination of India’s green status dilemma and deals with broader international relations problematiques.
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Paul T. Levin
"[W]ar is never merely a technical contest. It is shaped by grievance, sacred narrative, the memory of past humiliations and the desire for revenge. Those are not atmospheric complications added to an otherwise technical enterprise. They are what the war is about."
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/o...
