Now that Rep. Howard Berman’s (D-Calif.) bill authorizing new energy-sector sanctions on Iran has passed the House, the Obama administration is looking to the Senate to cool things down. The Obama administration “didn’t tell me to go ahead, but they also didn’t tell me not to go ahead,” Berman More…
Chances are President Obama will announce a readjusted Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy shortly after the Thanksgiving holiday. It’s very likely that strategy announcement will come paired with an announcement of a troop escalation. Before that happens, however, Obama will host one last all-hands-on-deck meeting with his national security team. Just added to More…
I don’t know what he’ll say, but Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg probably wouldn’t address an audience convened by the Obama administration’s shadow Pentagon if he wasn’t prepared to issue some set of policy principles for handling China. The Center for a New American Security announced that Steinberg More…
While much of the national security establishment’s attention is understandably focused on how the Obama administration handles Afghanistan — both the increase in troop levels and the forthcoming strategy review — there are some interesting Iraq-related changes underway as well.
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