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Author Archives for Eli Gilman
Trump, Tsai, and the Three Communiques: Prospects for Stability in US-China-Taiwan Relations
March 9, 2017 12:26 pm Leave your thoughts The Shanghai Communique of 1972 and the U.S.-China Joint Communiques of 1979 and 1982 have been essential foundations of...
Politicization of the Intelligence Community is Extremely Dangerous
February 27, 2017 4:19 pm 3 Comments I was a CIA analyst working in the Counterterrorism Center in the run-up to the Iraq war. We didn’t...
No “Hero of Haarlem” in Ankara
February 24, 2017 4:01 pm 1 Comment With Mary Mapes Dodge’s Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates, the English-speaking world took to heart the tale of...
The non-“Special”-ness of LTG McMaster
February 22, 2017 1:59 pm Leave your thoughts Much has been made about President Trump’s selection of Army Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster as his new National Security...
Clouded Reassurances in Asia
February 6, 2017 3:17 pm Leave your thoughts Last week, Secretary of Defense James Mattis made his first official foreign visit as a member of the Trump...
Georgian Splits and Struggles
January 27, 2017 4:32 pm Leave your thoughts In Gore Vidal’s stage play turned film, “The Best Man,” President Art Hockstader says, “Power is not a toy...Yesterday was not a good day in American history
January 26, 2017 2:00 pm 5 Comments Yesterday was not a good day in American history: We initiated a migration ban on seven Muslim countries, although...
Pulling to the Extremes: Israel, the U.N. Security Council, and Amona
January 5, 2017 8:58 am Leave your thoughts Last week, Secretary of State John Kerry gave an extensive speech about the U.S. decision not to veto a...