Category: M. National Security
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A co-authored Foreign Affairs piece with Scott Morris. The US should leave infrastructure to the World Bank and 'compete' bilaterally with China on human rather than physical capital.
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With Scott Morris in Foreign Policy. Only 3.9 percent of US foreign assistance is actually executed by recipient country governments. Take out Jordan and that's less than one percent. Pathetic and diplomatically counter-productive.
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In Barrons on Operation Warp Speed and why the Pentagon should be part of but shouldn't be leading efforts to develop a Covid-19 vaccine.
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“You don’t have to be a peacenik or a lefty to be persuaded by this trenchant and witty book that the 21st-century American war machine is stupefyingly wasteful, protecting us against threats that no longer exist and failing to protect us against those that do.” –Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor, Harvard University, author of The Better Angels…
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ICE going rogue with the support of the President. For the Economist.
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Trump's wall: transparently stupid. For the Economist.
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Troops are worthy of support. The Pentagon, not so much. For the Economist.
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Because there are less of them. For @BW.
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Terror kills hardly anyone. Disease kills millions. For @BW.
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Testing police corruption using techniques from NYC and India. For @BW.