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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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Aaron Mehta @aaronmehta.bsky.social · 5h
Our first writethrough on the NDS. If you're South Korea and Europe you're probably not happy right now.

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Pentagon releases National Defense Strategy, with homeland defense as top priority - Breaking Defense
Pete Hegseth's first National Defense Strategy lays out how the Pentagon will execute guidance from the White House.
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 5h
Soft power, who needs it?

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Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social · 7h
it’s the part people overlook in Fukuyama’s End of History and the Last Man.
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For some reason, these days I find myself thinking a lot about how SimCity players would eventually get bored and start triggering disasters.

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Phil Klay @philklay.bsky.social · 7h
I know what the actual trouble with men is, but I’ll only reveal it next week, at the @92ndstreety.bsky.social

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 13h
65 Polish soldiers died in Iraq and Afghanistan. Trump's insults have not gone down well

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W Afganistanie i w Iraku zginęło 65 polskich żołnierzy. Słowa Trumpa to potworne kłamstwo
Przypominam tę smutną statystykę, bo prezydent USA Donald Trump w wywiadzie dla telewizji Fox News pogardliwie stwierdził, że USA nigdy nie potrzebowały NATO, a w Afganistanie żołnierze z państw Sojus...
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Sarah Kirchberger @sarahkirchberger.bsky.social · 15h
‘One naval source said: “This [anti-submarine warfare collaboration] avoids a Russian submarine being unlocated off the coast of America.”
But if the US attempted to take Greenland by force, the danger to the US could increase because greements to pass on vital intelligence might fall apart.’

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 1d
The ombudsman for Stars and Stripes, the deployed servicemember's paper of record, writes in its pages that the publication "is in peril of losing its editorial independence and becoming nothing more than a public relations arm of the Pentagon."
www.stripes.com/opinion/2026...
Pentagon wants a ‘refocus,’ but Stripes hasn’t wavered from its true mission
www.stripes.com

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Alexander Lanoszka @lanoszka.bsky.social · 1d
It's unclear at this point that the United States would be able to make its bases in Greenland 'sovereign', as what British bases in Cyprus are. I suspect that Copenhagen would have been more amenable had Trump pursued a more tactful approach. Bad diplomacy is costly.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/w...
After Trump’s Ultimatum, Greenland Talks Include Sovereign U.S. Bases, No Drilling for Russia
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Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social · 1d
“he believes that it’s wrong—“objectively unnecessary and almost wicked”—to station armed soldiers on street corners as props in the deterrence of crime. “I love my country and I love the Army,” he said, “but this is not what I signed up to do.”
An Anonymous DC National Guardsman Tells All
“This is not what I signed up to do.”
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Ankit Panda @nktpnd.bsky.social · 1d
Read this. And think through the counterterror (domestic and foreign) and counterintelligence implications. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Kash Patel’s FBI Is Making America Less Safe, Current and Former Employees Say
Forty-five current and former employees on the changes they say are undermining the agency and making America less safe.
www.nytimes.com

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 1d
I am hearing that Trump's Greenland deal is the greatest deal ever negotiated in history, in that it gives us exactly what we had before except everyone hates us for it.

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Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social · 1d
“Hedging is starting to become the norm, even if the alternatives to working with the US are often unattractive.” The great @ldfreedman.bsky.social
ldfreedman.bsky.social Lawrence Freedman @ldfreedman.bsky.social · 1d
Latest post tries to catch up with the back and forth on Greenland. I argue that rather this being a rupture (as Mark Carney suggested) the European response shows a transition to a rebalanced transatlantic relationship with diminished US power. (£/free trial), open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...?
To Greenland and Back
Does NATO carry on as before?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Trump on NATO: "I've always said, will they be there if we ever needed them? That's really the ultimate test. I'm not sure of that. We've never needed them. They'll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan and this or that. And they did. They stayed a little back, off the front lines."

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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 1d
"China Wins as Trump Cedes Leadership of the Global Economy" www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/b...
"The announcement spared the sovereignty of the island, but there was no taking back the significance of Mr. Trump’s attack on the global economic order just hours earlier."
China Wins as Trump Cedes Leadership of the Global Economy
The president used a keynote speech at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland to renounce the last vestiges of the liberal democratic order.
www.nytimes.com

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Shashank Joshi @shashj.bsky.social · 1d
One part of The @economist.com's cover package this week is a detailed, methodical and compelling dismantling of the Trump admin's ever-shifting case for acquiring Greenland, almost every element of which is false, exaggerated or confused. A truly confected crisis.
www.economist.com/briefing/202...
Donald Trump’s grab for Greenland makes no sense
It would harm America’s security and its economy
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Lawrence Freedman @ldfreedman.bsky.social · 1d
Latest post tries to catch up with the back and forth on Greenland. I argue that rather this being a rupture (as Mark Carney suggested) the European response shows a transition to a rebalanced transatlantic relationship with diminished US power. (£/free trial), open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...?
To Greenland and Back
Does NATO carry on as before?
open.substack.com

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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 2d
Detail I learned today about the Caracas raid: more than 20 of the Delta Force operators earned their Combat Infantryman Badges on the raid (as in, they did not previously have them). An illustration of how GWOT combat experience has aged out of the force, even JSOC units.

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Jorge Liboreiro @jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social · 2d
Vladimir Putin says he will join Donald Trump's Board of Peace and pay the $1 billion membership fee with... wait for it... Russian frozen assets.

"We could send 1 billion US dollars from Russian assets frozen during the previous US administration to the Board of Peace," Putin said in Moscow.
Putin says Russia could pay $1B from frozen assets for membership in Trump's Gaza 'Board of Peace'
Russian President Vladimir Putin says he instructed Russian Foreign Ministry to study proposal - Anadolu Ajansı
www.aa.com.tr

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 2d
Only took me a few weeks but here is a list of books to introduce one to all things military. My latest⬇️

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The Economist @economist.com · 2d
The Greenland crisis holds lessons for all countries. America’s friends need to prepare for a world in which they are alone and NATO is no more: econ.st/4pMUXSB

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 2d
donald trump has decided to re-fight the american revolution with himself as george iii, for some reason

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Chicago Council on Global Affairs @global-affairs.bsky.social · 2d
How is the relationship between America’s citizens and soldiers shifting, and what does it mean for national defense? On 2/17, join @kschake.bsky.social and @leslievinjamuri.bsky.social for a conversation on the future of civil-military relations. bit.ly/4jTw2v5

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Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social · 2d
"Rather than waiting for the hegemon to restore an order it’s busy dismantling, create your own institutions and agreements that function as intended. Countries earn the right to principled stands by reducing their vulnerability to retaliation.” Important piece by @seva.bsky.social.
seva.bsky.social Seva @seva.bsky.social · 2d
“The strong do what they can" is what Athens said right before destroying itself. New piece on the Carney Doctrine, Vaclav’s grocer, and American hubris.
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The Strong Will Suffer What They Must
Vaclav's Grocer and American Hubris
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Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social · 2d
This is significant because India is the first country outside the traditional Western alliances to sign a security and defence partnership with the EU - part of the wider diversification strategy now necessary.
Contours of an EU Partnership and Alliance Strategy
How Europe Plans to Strengthen Its Security with Partners beyond the United States
www.swp-berlin.org

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World Politics Review @wpr.bsky.social · 2d
The United States’ ability to use the European continent so freely is a unique military asset that would be painful to lose, @rikefranke.bsky.social writes.
Europe Has More Military Leverage Than Trump Realizes
America’s ability to use the European continent so freely is a unique military asset that would be painful to lose.
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Seva @seva.bsky.social · 2d
“The strong do what they can" is what Athens said right before destroying itself. New piece on the Carney Doctrine, Vaclav’s grocer, and American hubris.
hegemon.substack.com/p/the-strong...
The Strong Will Suffer What They Must
Vaclav's Grocer and American Hubris
hegemon.substack.com

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 2d
"The acquisition of San Domingo is an adherence to the Monroe doctrine; it is a measure of national protection..."

But significant that US Grant sought to annex DR:

1) With agreement of DR.

2) Pursuant to a treaty.

3) Did not claim unilateral authority to annex after Senate rejected treaty.

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Ian Ford 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @ianford.bsky.social · 2d
Precisely. Negotiations are impossible. To even talk about holding them would imply that Greenland's sovereignty is up for grabs and validate Trump's stance.

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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 2d
Here is the full transcript of Trump saying he isn't planning to use force in Greenland.

What stands out to me is the incoherence of his comments: there are so many internal contradictions in this short passage that it's hard to treat as a credible renunciation of violence.

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 2d
Greenland, Iceland
someone tell him the one he really wants is “the rich, fertile land just a bit to the south of Vinland” and maybe we can still get out of this