Tag: USA

(Vietnam/USA/Indo-Pacific) Is Vietnam open to Washington’s Indo-Pacific strategy? (East Asia Forum)

Nguyen Huu Tuc, Vietnam National University Hanoi As soon as he took office in 2017, former US president Donald Trump adopted the Free and Open...

(USA/China) China Is Not Ten Feet Tall (Foreign Affairs, Brookings)

Ryan Hass China, the story goes, is inexorably rising and on the verge of overtaking a faltering United States. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/china/2021-03-03/china-not-ten-feet-tall

(USA) Biden is right: A lot of students at elite schools have student debt (Brookings)

Adam Looney President Biden made headlines recently when he expressed reluctance to forgive large amounts of student debt owed by well-off students at elite schools. https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/biden-is-right-a-lot-of-students-at-elite-schools-have-student-debt/

(USA) Four lessons from a year of pandemic housing policies (Brookings)

Jenny Schuetz Housing insecurity was a widespread problem among low-income renters well before the COVID-19 pandemic. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2021/03/03/four-lessons-from-a-year-of-pandemic-housing-policies/

(USA) The Paycheck Protection Program and unemployment benefit claims (AEI)

Michael R. Strain I recently highlighted two new papers on the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). The evidence on PPP’s effects is continuing to grow, and I want...

(USA) That Senate parliamentarian did Democrats a favor. Now it’s time for centrists to step up and do the same (AEI)

James Pethokoukis More trouble ahead for President Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief/stimulus bill? Last week, the Senate parliamentarian told lawmakers that the plan’s proposed increase in the...

(USA) A lot of Trump supporters want someone else to carry Trumpism’s banner into 2024 (AEI)

Marc A. Thiessen Donald Trump’s loyal base remains intensely loyal. A straw poll of participants in the 2021 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) found 97 percent approve...

(USA) The coming ACA expansion will be permanent (AEI)

James C. Capretta The COVID-19 response bill moving briskly through Congress contains the largest expansion of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) since the law was enacted...

(Ethiopia/USA) US Must Reverse Ethiopia Funding Cuts to Avoid Further Horn of Africa Destabilization (The Defense Post)

 ELIZABETH HUME All eyes are currently on Ethiopia’s Tigray, as they should be given Amnesty International’s recent report documenting Eritrea’s military’s massacre of hundreds of unarmed civilians last November....

(Iraq/USA) Militias in Iraq Provide Security, Wield Political Power, and May Be Tearing the Country Apart (Defense One)

Katie Bo Williams Rogue militia groups threaten to thrust Iraq into civil war, senior U.S. military officials are warning in increasingly stark language. https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2021/03/militias-iraq-provide-security-wield-political-power-and-may-be-tearing-country-apart/172390/

(USA) Defense Innovation Unit Launched 23 Projects Last Year, Up One-Third (Defense One)

Mila Jasper Five years after it was established as an experimental component, the Defense Innovation Unit in 2020 solicited more projects and transitioned more capabilities...

(USA) AI-Powered Drones Emerge as R&D Priority for Boeing (Defense One)

Marcus Weisgerber New technology that allows military drones to fly alongside manned warplanes has emerged as a rare area of corporate investment for Boeing’s defense...

(USA) Key Elements Expected This Year for Pentagon’s Link-Everything Effort (Defense One)

Patrick Tucker Several foundational elements of the Pentagon’s effort to network virtually all of its weapons, vehicles, and troops should fall into place this year,...

(USA/China) US Unprepared for AI Competition with China, Commission Finds (Defense One)

Mila Jaspers The National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence is out with its comprehensive final report recommending a path forward for ensuring U.S. superiority in...

(USA) Why Invest in Hypersonic Technology? (Defense One)

AJ Piplica A recent study that criticizes U.S. investment in hypersonic weapons misses the opportunity such technologies present for something beyond missiles: dual-use hypersonic aircraft that can solve...

(USA/China) A Solid Plan to Compete with China in Artificial Intelligence (Defense One)

Megan Lamberth, Martijn Rasser If the United States is to keep ahead of a rapidly gaining China in the field of artificial intelligence, it needs...