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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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Brian Kerg @briankerg.bsky.social · 1d
I think about this a lot. How does the military come back from this kind of norm erosion?

Increasingly you see officers empowered to shout partisan screeds from the heart of the digital town square.

Tomorrow always comes, but how do we repair the professional norm and win back trust?

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 1d
Arch of Hysteria, by Louise Bourgeois, 1993, 📸 by @jaredctilton

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Mujtaba Rahman @mijrahman.bsky.social · 1d
Look at Denmark..

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d
Acive duty military are being ordered to buy a ticket to Melania and watch it, whether they want to, or not. www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/mil...
Military Pressured to See ‘Melania’ Against Their Will
A military group has evidence of troops being ordered into theater—the movie theater.
www.thedailybeast.com

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Paul Szoldra @paulszoldra.com · 1d
Really living up to the quote: "The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards."

www.reuters.com/world/us/pen...
Pentagon ends training, fellowship programs with Harvard, Hegseth says
Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth said late on Friday his department was ending all military training, fellowships, and certificate programs with Harvard University in what marks the Trump administration's ...
www.reuters.com

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 1d
Many killed by the Iranian regime have left behind social-media presences that “open windows, however narrow, onto their lives, their aspirations, and why and for what they risked their lives,” Arash Azizi writes.
What Iran’s Dead Loved and Fought For
A young woman’s online diaries about cinema and literature have become her epitaph.
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Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social · 1d
Money that should not be in the defense budget —>

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Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social · 2d
In this debate, @maxboot.bsky.social and I made the case the Trump administration is doing real damage with threats to Greenland
U.S. Presence in Greenland: Necessary or Not?
YouTube video by Open to Debate
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Defense News @defensenews.bsky.social · 2d
Under a new Department of Defense program, gambling addiction is now a topic of research.
Research on problem gambling included in defense funding law
Under a new Department of Defense program, gambling addiction is now a topic of research.
www.defensenews.com

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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 2d
🇲🇩🇺🇦 Moldovan President Sandu said that she is against her nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize, because there are more worthy candidates - Ukrainian prisoners of war.

Sandu emphasized that it is Ukrainians who are truly sacrificing themselves for the sake of peace and security in Ukraine and the EU.

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Eric L. Robinson @uticaeric.bsky.social · 2d
That rumbling noise you hear from the floorboards is Thomas Schelling spinning in his grave.
DoofusPost

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Craig Newmark @craignewmark.bsky.social · 2d
The Blue Star Families 2025 Military Family Lifestyle Survey is live! Dive into the report to explore how service-connected pressures shape family stability, quality of life, readiness, retention, and the future of military service. See the findings here bit.ly/4qmDsbQ
MFLS Survey Results Release 2026 - Blue Star Families
Blue Star Families’ annual Survey provides a comprehensive understanding of the experiences and challenges encountered by military families.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 2d
Happy Black History Month from the president of the United States of America.
Trump posts racist image showing Obamas as apes, White House defends it
The depiction of the Obamas, posted from Trump's Truth Social account, was included in a video pushing a conspiracy theory about 2020 election voting machines.
www.cnbc.com

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Leyla Boulton @leylaboulton.bsky.social · 2d
Join FT journalists and special guest @kschake.bsky.social for a @financialtimes.com subscriber webinar on Thurs 12 Feb at 1300 UK: The transatlantic relationship: can Europe go it alone? Register, send us your questions, and take part in our poll
transatlantic-relationship.live.ft.com/home

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Jack Goldsmith @jacklgoldsmith.bsky.social · 2d
My take, building on arguments by James Comey, on the extraordinary degree to which federal courts, including the Supreme Court, have successfully checked the Trump administration in the last year.

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The Federal Court Snapback
The judiciary, including the Supreme Court, is standing up to the president
open.substack.com

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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 2d
"Rather than reducing prices, China simply found other buyers for their goods. Consequently, these data imply that US consumers and individuals are likely bearing most, if not all, of the tariff on Chinese goods." 😲 www.econlib.org/econlog/the-...

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Marcel Dirsus @marceldirsus.com · 2d
The longer Trump stays in power, the worse things will get. They're threatening Poland, they're talking about invading Denmark - not a single day goes by where they don't their insult their strongest allies. But the system can only take so much, this isn't sustainable

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Shashank Joshi @shashj.bsky.social · 2d
NSS: "We seek... peaceful commercial relations with the nations of the world without imposing on them democratic or other social change..." www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
"The US state department is set to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities across Europe..." www.ft.com/content/f869...

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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 2d
What military-grade intelligence tactics look like

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Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman.bsky.social · 3d
The president just released a statement that, I believe interpreted fairly, explicitly threatens Mauritius if the country ever decides it does not want a giant GCHQ-NSA eavesdropping station there.

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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 3d
One of the best books about former soldiers turning into mercenaries (while not about Colombia) yet remains to be translated into English
"El arma en el hombre" by Horacio Castellanos Moya

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 3d
To elaborate:

I regularly encounter National Guard soldiers deployed to DC as props in POTUS's theatrical production.

They are unfailing professional and polite.

There is no basis to believe that any of these troops have beaten supposed Tren de Aragua members.

This is all authoritarian fantasy.

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Jeffrey Lewis @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social · 3d
I'll be giving a talk on using open source tools to estimate China's nuclear forces, past and present at @stanfordcisac.bsky.social on February 12.
cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/events/open-...
Open Source Windows on China's Nuclear Forces, Policy and Strategy
cisac.fsi.stanford.edu

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Dr. Jonathan Schroden @jjschroden.bsky.social · 3d
“ to say there are terrorists — when they actually worked alongside our military and intelligence community to kill terrorists — doesn’t make any sense,” Mr. McCaul said.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u...
Congress Nixes Visas for Afghan Partners, Closing Off a Key Path
www.nytimes.com

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Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social · 3d
“try to reassure worried friends in Asia that America will not abandon its commitments to allies, even as Mr Trump switches his focus to Venezuela and Greenland, contemplates a grand bargain with China and routinely expresses his contempt for many of his nato allies in Europe.”

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Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social · 3d
“His appointees are more likely to be keyboard warriors. They are obsessed with spectacle, and every government decision presents a potential opportunity to own the libs.”
theatlantic.com The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 3d
The Trump administration has fused a social-media worldview with authoritarian tendencies—and in this “clicktatorship,” Donald Moynihan argues, “judgment and decision making are hyper-responsive to what’s happening on the far-right internet.”
Donald Trump Has Built a Clicktatorship
Even the administration’s budget proposals read like Truth Social posts.
bit.ly

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The Economist @economist.com · 3d
Can Sam Paparo keep US strategy on an even keel?
The outsize influence of America’s admiral in Asia
Can Sam Paparo keep US strategy on an even keel?
econ.st

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 3d
The Trump administration has fused a social-media worldview with authoritarian tendencies—and in this “clicktatorship,” Donald Moynihan argues, “judgment and decision making are hyper-responsive to what’s happening on the far-right internet.”
Donald Trump Has Built a Clicktatorship
Even the administration’s budget proposals read like Truth Social posts.
bit.ly

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Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social · 3d
Love Lithuania: : “They will be fighting, definitely, even before the reinforcements come.”
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“Our assessment is that Russia will be able to move large amounts of troops within one year,” the Netherlands Defense Minister Ruben Brekelmans said.”
A Wargame Shows Just How Vulnerable Europe Is to a Russian Attack
With America disengaging, Russia might be ready for a new war much sooner than previously estimated.
www.wsj.com

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Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social · 3d
“Our assessment is that Russia will be able to move large amounts of troops within one year,” the Netherlands Defense Minister Ruben Brekelmans said.”
A Wargame Shows Just How Vulnerable Europe Is to a Russian Attack
With America disengaging, Russia might be ready for a new war much sooner than previously estimated.
www.wsj.com