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. Pottinger served as the President's Deputy National Security
Advisor and was the chief architect of the Trump administration's China strategy.
He is currently the chairman of the China program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He serves on the Vandenberg Coalition's governance board.
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Russia, China, and the New Cold War Interview with TVC Board Member Matt Pottinger | Adam O'Neal
The Wall Street Journal | March 18, 2022
Bottom Line: Russia's invasion of Ukraine evokes stark parallels to the Korean War, which helped wake up the West to the treat posed by communism. "We would be remiss not to learn lessons from the original Cold War, not least because we won."
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Ukraine's Lessons for Taiwan Jeffrey W. Hornung | War on the Rocks | March 17, 2022
Bottom Line: Rather than treating a Chinese victory over Taiwan as inevitable, the example of Ukraine shows us that the U.S. and its allies should start reinforcing the island now to help Taipei defend itself against communist aggression.
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Whither Hybrid War? Seth Cropsey | RealClear Defense | March 15, 2022
Bottom Line: Russia's invasion of Ukraine shows us that the direct application of force still takes precedence over the much-vaunted strategy of "hybrid war" that analysts have long described as a game-changer for Russia on the battlefield.
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The Ukraine Crisis Shows the Need for a Bigger Defense Budget TVC Advisory Board Member Mackenzie Eaglen | The Dispatch | March 17, 2022
Bottom Line: To deter China and Russia, DoD needs predictable, flexible, and robust budgets. Congress must take the lead to end continuing destructive resolutions and ensure DoD's budget grows above the rate of inflation.
Further Reading: The Defense Budget We Need
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The U.S. Needs a National Security Strategy The Forum for American Leadership | March 18, 2022
Bottom Line: The Biden administration is behind schedule releasing its National Security Strategy. The U.S. cannot afford to meet complex challenges like Ukraine without the overarching grand strategic guidance provided by the NSS.
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Three Critical Defense Reallocations for U.S. Strategic Competition with China Harrison Bradon Morgan | Strategy Bridge | March 15, 2022
Bottom Line: To meet the challenge of great power competition, DoD must reallocate scarce resources. It can start by shrinking the Army to grow the fleet, re-deploying assets to the Indo-Pacific, and investing in cognitive—not just technological—capabilities.
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How Blue State Policies Are Making America More Dependent on Hostile Foreign Oil Isaac Schorr | National Review | March 21, 2022
Bottom Line: Led by California and New York, for years blue state governors have held up and cancelled new exploration, production, and pipelines that would mitigate American dependence on foreign oil and gas, driving up prices for working Americans in the process.
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Judge the CHIPs Act as Defense Policy, Not Industrial Policy TVC Advisory Board Member Will Inboden (with Adam Klein) | The Hill | March 20, 2022
Bottom Line: Supply of high-end semiconductors is essential to U.S. qualitative military advantage. Those who criticize the CHIPs Act for distorting the market need to recognize that its aim is to help secure this critical supply chain for U.S. industry & the military.
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TVC Commentary and Media
Matt Pottinger, Keith Krach, Bonnie Glick, & H.R. McMaster: (panel) Bipartisan National Security Experts Urge Congress to Pass Competitiveness Legislation to Boost Semiconductor Production and Domestic Manufacturing
Marshall Billingslea & Rebeccah Heinrichs: Appointments to the Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States
Peter Berkowitz: The Virtues and Vices of Common-Good Constitutionalism
James Jay Carafano: In a New Kind of War, the Old Wars of Ideas are Back | Ukraine's Zelenskyy Gave a Powerful Address to Congress but 'What's Next' is the Big Question Now
Mark Dubowitz: Biden Throws Putin a Nuclear Lifeline
Marc Reuel Gerech & Ray Takeyh: The Folly of the 'Pivot to Asia'
Amb. Mark Green: One-Time Nukes; Polling & Propaganda; and Ukrainian Women
Rebeccah Heinrichs: Biden's Risk Aversion is Escalating Putin's War | (podcast with Marc LiVecche) Just War Perspective on the Ukraine War | (interview) Conversation on Russia's War of Aggression with Congresswoman Victoria Spartz
Jamil Jaffer: (media) Is a No-Fly Zone the Quickest Way to End Russia's War? | (media) Debate on the No Fly Zone with Mehdi Hasan
Seth Jones (et al): (media) The Human Price of War in Ukraine
James Kirchick: When Reagan Said Gay
Klon Kitchen: Why National Security is a Shared Burden Between the State and the Private Sector | (media) U.S. Should Provide Military Aircraft to Ukraine
Matt Kroenig: (media) China Walks Fine Line Between Russia and the Rest of the World on Ukraine War
Clifford D. May: The Death of MAD | Fall of the Golden Arches Theory of Geopolitics | (media) Appearance on the Ben Shapiro Show
LTG (ret.) H.R. McMaster: (interview) The War in Ukraine "Has Already Escalated" | (media) Putin's Rally in Russia Portrayed 'Weakness' | (media) U.S. Handling of the Ukraine Crisis
Michael Pillsbury: (media) Xi Jinping Picked the Wrong Side | (media) China has a High Price for Brokering Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal
Amb. Nathan Sales: (interview) Removing Iran's IRGC from Terror List Would Be 'Colossal Mistake,' Former U.S. Counterterrorism Official Says
Daniel Twining: (Senate Foreign Affairs Committee Testimony) Bolstering the Democratic Response to Chinese Authoritarian Aggression
Roger Zakheim: (media) China's Support of Russia Escalates Ukraine Conflict
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