Peter Feaver

american academic

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The president gave a campaign rally speech full of partisan applause lines, and the secretary gave a speech full of critique of his predecessor’s policies,
Last year’s Quantico event was a tough test for the military,
It is unusual to see the secretary of Defense campaigning not just in an election, but in the primary, and picking and campaigning against the sitting House member,... it’s not illegal or unethical, assuming that he followed all the procedures.”
I don’t yet see the effort by the administration to forge a non-MAGA coalition of support for this, but that could come if the war becomes more arduous and costly,
Leaders waging pop-up wars that don’t really meet either of those conditions — Reagan in Grenada 1983, Clinton in Kosovo 1999, Obama in Libya in 2011 and Syria 2014 — rolled the dice that the intervention would be low-cost, quickly resolved and with minimal second- and third-order consequences,
As he has in many other areas, President Trump is pioneering a new approach,

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