The Vandenberg Coalition brings you weekly roundups of news media pieces displaying honest candor in the foreign policy space.
If Women are the Taliban’s Kryptonite, Let’s Send Our Best and Brightest | Are the Sanctions on Russia Working? | Mike Gallagher’s China Challenge | Is there a Biden Doctrine | Stocking Ukraine Could Generate Foreign Military Sales
Ukraine, Japan, and the Korean War’s 21st Century Parallel | Japan Shifts to a War Footing | Let Ukraine Defeat the Russian-Iranian War Machine | Russia’s Quest for Polar Power | Defense and Inflation: Roosevelt to 2023
Vandenberg Coalition Open Letter on the Origins of COVID-19 | Mexican Cartels’ War on Americans | Australia’s Contribution to AUKUS Should Be a Next Generation Conventional Submarine | How to Bankrupt Russia and Protect Our Supply Chains | U.S. Convincing U.K. to Approve F-16 Fighters to Argentina Amid Reports of Chinese Military Base in South America | Containing Isolationism
The Vandenberg Coalition celebrates the New Year by looking back on twelve of our favorite foreign policy & national security stories of 2022.
Biden’s Venezuela Policy: Something for Nothing | Republicans Press Biden Official for Answers on TikTok Security Concerns | CCP Weapons of Mass Persuasion | Americans Are Losing Trust in the Military | Japan’s New Security Strategy: Rising to the Challenge | ‘Can We Actually Build It?’ Defense Industry Leaders Look Ahead to Uncertain 2023
U.S. Support for Ukraine: The Reagan Doctrine in Action | The Merchant of Death Can Now Return to Business | Putin’s Eternal World | Disentangling the Digital Battlefield: How the Internet has Changed War | Mexican Cartels Have Turned to Fentanyl
2023: A Year of Living Dangerously | America, China, and the Spirit of Enterprise | No, Iran Didn’t Ban Morality Police—It Duped Press and Biden Administration | Cardinal Zen’s Trial: More Oppression Than Meets the Eye | The Long-term Risks of a Premature Ceasefire in Ukraine | ‘We Haven’t Got This Figured Out Just Yet’: Pentagon, Industry Struggle to Arm Ukraine
Within Our Borders: The CCP’s Silent Domestic Invasion | China is No. 1 Domestic National Security Threat and Biden Administration Won’t Admit It | How China is Trying to Turn the U.S. Against Itself | China’s Ally in Stealing Western IP: the United States | Espionage with Chinese Characteristics | U.S. Bans Gear from China’s Huawei and ZTE Over Security Risk | Incoming House Committee Chairs Accuse TikTok of Lying to Congress | The Drug That’s Killing Young Americans
The Fight for the Future of Republican Foreign Policy | The Return of American Exceptionalism | White House Won’t Say How It Spent $1 Billion in Taliban Controlled Afghanistan | The U.S. Military is in Decline While China Grows More Powerful | South Korea to Sell Arms to U.S. for Ukrainian Forces Fighting Russia
‘No Limits’: Xi’s Support for Putin Is Unwavering | Waltzing in Beijing, Germany’s Olaf Scholz Plays U.S. For a Fool | Iran’s Hardliners Are Starting to Crack | Putin Will Think Twice Before Nuking Ukraine | Yes, Banning U.S. Oil Exports is a Horrific Idea | Rising Inflation Forces Greater Attention on Food Insecurity in Africa
The Fundamental Tension in Biden’s National Security Strategy | Power and Prudence | Could America Win a New World War | The TikTok National Security Threat | Big Tech’s National Security Red Herring
American Voters Should Not Be Mistaken for Doves | We Cannot Let China Use Our ‘Tech Disconnect’ to Advance its ‘Rule by Law’ | Ten Myths About U.S. Aid to Ukraine | ‘Frustrated and Powerless’: In Fight with China for Global Influence, Diplomacy is America’s Biggest Weakness | The Dangers of Absolute Power
What Grade Does Biden’s National Security Strategy Get? | Biden’s Rather Rhetorical National Strategy | Why Biden’s National Security Strategy is Destined to Fail | Biden’s New National Security Strategy: A Lot of Trump, Very Little Obama | In U.S. Security Strategy, China ‘Only Competitor’, India Key Partner | Towards a Biden Doctrine: U.S. National Interest or Global Commitment
Troubled Bridge Over Stolen Waters | Who Will Control the Black Sea? | The West Should Welcome the Middle Corridor | Death, Corruption, and Despair: The Darien Hell that Thousands of Venezuelans Cross Every Day to Reach the U.S. | Offshore Balancing: The British Analogy
The Women Burning Hijabs Want the Iranian Regime to Fall. Does Joe Biden? | How Iran’s Protests Differ from Past Movements | On Ukraine | Why Arming America’s Allies is America’s Smartest, Safest Strategy | The American Public Thinks It’s Time to End China’s Permanent Normal Trade Relations Status | Why Beijing is Allegedly Opening Police Stations on Canadian Soil
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