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As a kid, my dad collected baseball cards, trading with friends and carefully updating the statistics on the back in pencil. He witnessed the game’s golden age, including the arrival of a Henry Aaron, “Hammerin’ Hank,” who died Friday at age 86.

My goodness this ⁦@aroopmukharji⁩ War on the Rocks⁩ piece on McKinley and the Spanish-American War is fascinating. I felt like I learned something new in every sentence. Check it out ⁦@ProfSaunders⁩ warontherocks.com/2021/02/what-o…

.President Donald J. Trump released Interim National Security Strategic Guidance, outlining our agenda to strengthen America’s enduring advantages to meet the unprecedented challenges and opportunities of our time. whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…

It’s time to close the book on the 20-year conflict in Afghanistan nytimes.com/2021/04/13/us/…

His incandescent wit attracted me to the The University of Chicago; his ideas on culture and history shaped my worldview. counterpunch.org/2021/04/09/a-g…

Five books that help understand the Russo-Ukrainian crisis and the country and people in the middle of it. fivebooks.com/best-books/rus…

A great conversation with Johns Hopkins SAIS Jim Steinberg and others Miller Center millercenter.org/news-events/ev…

So many good books have arrived since I‘m back in the office! Michael Kimmage Serhii Plokhy Jade McGlynn Hal Brands Luke Harding Christopher Miller Yaroslav Trofimov peter pomerantsev

Good discussion on the past and future of the war in Ukraine with Hal Brands and Andrea Kendall-Taylor, hosted by the ever-thoughtful Ryan Evans: warontherocks.com/2024/05/ukrain…

notre dame cathedral filled with everyone who helped restore the building over the last five years:

This was a fantastic exercise to explore the complexities of a potential crisis in the Taiwan Strait. Bravo to my students, and thanks to Mark Christopher ACGlobalChina, Ryan Laine Politics UVA, and the UVA Batten School team for their invaluable assistance.

Quick thoughts from me on Syria and the lessons for how we think about strategic surprise. A warm thanks to the excellent team Engelsberg Ideas for the opportunity.

"We received no indication that the Russians were interested in anything short of a basic capitulation of Ukraine." Biden did not achieve a negotiated conclusion to the war in Ukraine because Russia fundamentally did not want one, argues Alexander Bick zurl.co/rwklR

The destruction of DOD’s Office Net Assessment is an enormous mistake. This was a little-known but enormously consequential fifty year-old institution that actually thought long-term. It helped us win the Cold War, grasped the China challenge early, and figured out revolutions