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...The involvement of reputable people and institutions — including retired general James Mattis, former secretary of state Henry Kissinger and former Wells Fargo chief executive Richard Kovacevich as board...
...Beef, Bible and Bullets: Brazil in the Age of Bolsonaroby Richard Lapper, Manchester University Press £20 Jair Bolsonaro is the most controversial leader to come to power in Brazil since the end of military...
...Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Democratic member of the Senate armed services committee, described Mr Austin as a “trailblazer” with an exemplary military career....
...Referring to the scathing criticisms from retired officers who tend to avoid politics, Richard Fontaine, president of the Center for a New American Security, said: “The dam is broken....
...Peter Mattis, a former CIA analyst, has told a US congressional commission that New Zealand’s participation in the Five Eyes should be reconsidered due to its close links with Beijing....
...The president is positioning himself as a “law and order” candidate, along the lines of Richard Nixon amid the unrest of the 1960s....
...As much of the economy reels, writes Richard Waters, Big Tech exists inside a seemingly impregnable digital fortress....
...Syria was a clear example of the fine line that Mr Esper, who recently became the permanent successor to Mr Mattis, and Gen Milley are having to walk in their new positions....
...In his departing letter, Richard V Spencer, the outgoing US navy secretary, reminded president Donald Trump that “the rule of law is what sets us apart from our adversaries”....
...These include the president’s decision in December last year to announce that he would withdraw troops from Syria, a move that partly prompted the resignation of Jim Mattis as defence secretary....
...In contrast to Jim Mattis, his former boss, John Bolton, and indeed anyone else who has left the administration, Spencer had the decency to lay out in simple terms what happened....
...His exit is the latest in a series of cast changes in Mr Trump’s foreign policy team, coming after December’s departure of Jim Mattis, defence secretary....
...Richard Armitage, a deputy secretary of state during the Bush administration, said he was “terrific” when he was on your side negotiating arms control deals....
...Mr Shanahan, who spent three decades at Boeing before being tapped by the Trump administration, had served as acting defence secretary since Jim Mattis resigned in December due to differences with Mr Trump...
...Congress to increase defence spending Richard Fontaine, former NSC official in the Bush administration, said Mr Mattis was seen across the bipartisan divide as “a steady hand in a tumultuous time, and...
...“These islands are like stationary aircraft carriers that allow China to project power 1,000 miles south of the mainland,” said Richard Fontaine, president of the Center for a New America....
...days before the release of Fear: Trump in the White House , a critical look at Mr Trump by Bob Woodward, the veteran journalist whose reporting with Carl Bernstein helped to lead to the resignation of Richard...
...It was to preserve a vein of American realism that Richard Nixon made one of his last living acts the creation of what is now the Center for the National Interest....
...The only parallel is Richard Nixon’s White House during the Watergate hearings. The good news is that the US constitution remains largely intact....
...Richard Waters says Elon Musk is finally reaching the moment of truth for his would-be mass market electric car....
...Should he replace Jim Mattis, the secretary of defence, with someone who bends more easily to his will, the Senate will rubber stamp it....
...Mr Trump and Jim Mattis, defence secretary, have sent pointed letters to Nato allies, including Canada and the UK, calling on them to do more on defence....
...At a conference in Singapore in June, Jim Mattis, US defence secretary, talked about a “natural non-convergence of interest” between Russia and China and his belief that both countries had more in common...
...Richard Nixon was sometimes “managed” by his staff. All the same, this is an unconventional means of holding power to account....
...“There is a lot to like in the strategy,” said Richard Fontaine, president of the Center for a New American Security think-tank, praising its “belated recognition” of a new great power rivalry that many...
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