Kori Schake

Leyla Boulton (@leylaboulton.bsky.social) Join FT journalists and @kschake.bsky.social at a @financialtimes.com subscriber webinar on Thurs 12 Feb at 1300-1400 UK (0800-0900 EST): The transatlantic relationship: can Europe go it alone? Regis...

Talking the sorrowful state of transatlantic relations with the sharp journalists of the @financialtimes.com

YouTube video by The Bulwark The Military’s Silent Rebellion (w/ Kori Schake) | Shield of the Republic

Fun and games on civ-mil relations with @eliotacohen.bsky.social and Eric Edelman, arguing over Huntington, military resignations, and whether mil or civ deserve more blame for failure in Iraq.

Hong Kong democracy champion Jimmy Lai sentenced to 20 years in prison The heavy sentence for the 78-year-old Apple Daily founder and British citizen was imposed as Beijing seeks to wipe out the city’s remaining press freedoms.

Sad outcome in an important case. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

Yes, Puerto Rico is part of the U.S. But there also are 1 million Puerto Ricans in Florida and 5 million more in the Northeast.

I grew up in a neighborhood w/ a population that's about a quarter Puerto Rican. Tonight's halftime show was American, friends. Just a different kind.

A site tracking recent purges in the PLA vs purges at the Trump-Hegseth Pentagon purge-comparison.vercel.app

Really important questions.

SERE school: "We are authorized to do this solely for training purposes."

Arch of Hysteria, by Louise Bourgeois, 1993, 📸 by @jaredctilton

Look at Denmark..

Pentagon ends training, fellowship programs with Harvard, Hegseth says Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth said late on Friday his department was ending all military training, fellowships, and certificate programs with Harvard University in what marks the Trump administration's ...

Really living up to the quote: "The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards."

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What Iran’s Dead Loved and Fought For A young woman’s online diaries about cinema and literature have become her epitaph.

Many killed by the Iranian regime have left behind social-media presences that “open windows, however narrow, onto their lives, their aspirations, and why and for what they risked their lives,” Arash Azizi writes.

🇲🇩🇺🇦 Moldovan President Sandu said that she is against her nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize, because there are more worthy candidates - Ukrainian prisoners of war.

Sandu emphasized that it is Ukrainians who are truly sacrificing themselves for the sake of peace and security in Ukraine and the EU.

Money that should not be in the defense budget —>

YouTube video by Open to Debate U.S. Presence in Greenland: Necessary or Not?

In this debate, @maxboot.bsky.social and I made the case the Trump administration is doing real damage with threats to Greenland

Trump posts racist image showing Obamas as apes, White House defends it The depiction of the Obamas, posted from Trump's Truth Social account, was included in a video pushing a conspiracy theory about 2020 election voting machines.

Happy Black History Month from the president of the United States of America.

MFLS Survey Results Release 2026 - Blue Star Families Blue Star Families’ annual Survey provides a comprehensive understanding of the experiences and challenges encountered by military families.

The Blue Star Families 2025 Military Family Lifestyle Survey is live! Dive into the report to explore how service-connected pressures shape family stability, quality of life, readiness, retention, and the future of military service. See the findings here bit.ly/4qmDsbQ

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The Federal Court Snapback The judiciary, including the Supreme Court, is standing up to the president

My take, building on arguments by James Comey, on the extraordinary degree to which federal courts, including the Supreme Court, have successfully checked the Trump administration in the last year.

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NSS: "We seek... peaceful commercial relations with the nations of the world without imposing on them democratic or other social change..." www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
"The US state department is set to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities across Europe..." www.ft.com/content/f869...

The longer Trump stays in power, the worse things will get. They're threatening Poland, they're talking about invading Denmark - not a single day goes by where they don't their insult their strongest allies. But the system can only take so much, this isn't sustainable

"Rather than reducing prices, China simply found other buyers for their goods. Consequently, these data imply that US consumers and individuals are likely bearing most, if not all, of the tariff on Chinese goods." 😲 www.econlib.org/econlog/the-...

What military-grade intelligence tactics look like

I worked this issue hard with my Afghan Evac partners when Kabul fell. We had volunteers from all walks of life, from every political stripe. This cause united us in purpose unlike anything else.
And now, death sentences.
Enraged.

I'll be giving a talk on using open source tools to estimate China's nuclear forces, past and present at @stanfordcisac.bsky.social on February 12.
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To elaborate:

I regularly encounter National Guard soldiers deployed to DC as props in POTUS's theatrical production.

They are unfailing professional and polite.

There is no basis to believe that any of these troops have beaten supposed Tren de Aragua members.

This is all authoritarian fantasy.

One of the best books about former soldiers turning into mercenaries (while not about Colombia) yet remains to be translated into English

The president just released a statement that, I believe interpreted fairly, explicitly threatens Mauritius if the country ever decides it does not want a giant GCHQ-NSA eavesdropping station there.

“try to reassure worried friends in Asia that America will not abandon its commitments to allies, even as Mr Trump switches his focus to Venezuela and Greenland, contemplates a grand bargain with China and routinely expresses his contempt for many of his nato allies in Europe.”

“His appointees are more likely to be keyboard warriors. They are obsessed with spectacle, and every government decision presents a potential opportunity to own the libs.”