Percentage of global military spending by country:

🇺🇲37%
🇨🇳12%
🇷🇺4.5%
🇮🇳3.4%
🇸🇦3.1%
🇬🇧3.1%
🇩🇪2.7%
🇺🇦2.7%
🇫🇷2.5%
🇯🇵2.1%
🇰🇷2%
🇮🇹1.5%
🇦🇺1.3%
🇵🇱1.3%
🇮🇱1.1%

Only in America is this reckless war spending the norm.

New U.S. aid to Ukraine “is spending that lacks a coherent plan for making it effective,” QI’s George Beebe warns in Responsible Statecraft.

“That makes it a formula for prolonging, not ending, the war.” responsiblestatecraft.org/ukraine-aid-26…

Quincy Institute my 8th graders are riveted, using their lunch break to sit on this informative webinar!

Washington’s pursuit of an increasingly complex network of security arrangements in the Asia-Pacific — aimed at countering China — is a dangerous game.

Read QI's Michael D. Swaine & Mike Mochizuki in New York Times Opinion: nytimes.com/2024/04/24/opi…

For Responsible Statecraft, I argue that under the impression of calm and complacency that comes from empty diplomatic exchanges, pressures are steadily building.

Let’s not squander this rare moment when both the US and China have good reason to seek real progress.
responsiblestatecraft.org/antony-blinken…

A new Quincy Institute report from Ben Freeman and I provides the first-ever investigation into an obscure US military program which allows government contractors like Lockheed Martin to influence senior Pentagon policymakers.

Here's what we found 🧵

quincyinst.org/research/subsi…

NEW: For nearly 30 years, the Pentagon has used taxpayer dollars to send military officers to work for top DoD contractors.

Private interests used the fellowship program as a backdoor opportunity to reach top military brass & lobby for billion $ contracts levernews.com/the-pentagons-…

NEW RESEARCH

The US, Japan, & South Korea are enhancing their military cooperation in an effort to counter North Korea & China.

But could this emerging trilateral partnership actually backfire & make conflict more likely?

James Park & Mike Mochizuki: quincyinst.org/research/the-u…

$916,000,000,000

That's how much the U.S. spent on war in 2023.

That's more than the next 9 countries COMBINED.

I write in the The New York Times today about how Biden scored a victory through his efforts to prevent the Israeli-Iranian clash from escalating further.

HOWEVER, it was a tactical win within a larger strategic failure since Biden's broader policies have helped push the region to the…

NEW: an Air Force wife called me practically in tears this week saying no planes have flown in or out of Niger for weeks and her husband's deployment extended indefinitely.

Well, there is good news for her: responsiblestatecraft.org/us-troops-in-n…

The polling is clear.

Americans recognize the urgent need for U.S. diplomacy to end Russia's war in Ukraine — even if Washington doesn't.

Biden appears to have helped stop a wider war from igniting in the Middle East — for now.

But that tactical win for the administration is actually part of its much larger strategic failure in the region, Trita Parsi writes in New York Times Opinion. nytimes.com/2024/04/21/opi…

At the root of both the Israeli and Iranian strikes lies the failure of Israel and Hamas to reach a ceasefire there.

To this end, the world’s attention should not waver. responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-gaza-wa…