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Turkey Is Engaging in Hostage Diplomacy with The US, Officials Say
Eric Edelman, who served as US ambassador to Turkey from 2003 to 2005, cited Giuliani's role as well as reports that Erdogan had personally mentioned the case with Tillerson and the Trump administration. "At a minimum," he said, those contacts give “the appearance that the Turkish government is engaged in hostage diplomacy.”
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India’s joint doctrine and its grand strategy
Hal Brands defines grand strategy as “the intellectual architecture that gives form and structure to foreign policy.”
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Analysts Worried About New Navy Frigate
Bryan Clark, a naval analyst at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, said the RFI “opens up the aperture too much” in terms of what that future frigate might look like.
“It makes it seem like it could be anything from … a relatively low-end ship or less capable ship, all the way up to a frigate that can do air defense for another ship and do anti-submarine warfare,” he said.
In an effort to save money, the Navy might buy a vessel with insufficient capabilities, he said.
The RFI “establishes a capability hierarchy that could support development of a less expensive and less capable ship that does not meet the Navy’s needs,” he said.
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Despite North Korea threat, defense funding bill could get ‘kicked down the road’ again
"There's a deep fundamental divide between the Freedom Caucus members in the House, the more mainline conservatives in the House and the Senate, and the Democrats in the House and Senate," said Katherine Blakeley, a research fellow at the nonpartisan Center for Strategic and Budgeting Assessments.
Added Blakeley, "What exactly to do about defense spending is almost certainly going to get kicked down the road until about December," she said.
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The Road to Defense Budget Disaster
As Katherine Blakeley of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments explains in an analysis of the administration’s defense budget request, the legislative calendar that awaits lawmakers when they return from August recess provides little room to negotiate a compromise. Blakeley, and others, have noted that the most likely scenario a continuing resolution for the first months of fiscal 2018. And this is all taking place despite the president’s party holding majorities in both houses of Congress. It is also occurring as the United States continues to fight wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, ramps up counterterrorism operations elsewhere, and as the president threatens North Korea and, more recently, Venezuela.
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Army Most Sensitive to Personnel Cost Changes
The Army is the most sensitive to changes in the costs of military personnel because they account for more of its budget than other services, according to a new analysis from the think tank by Katherine Blakeley.