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  1. Cato Institute - Market Adjustment and Foreign Policy Failure

    Notre Dame associate professor Eugene Gholz discusses U.S. strategy, the low costs of neutrality in war, global oil markets and why the U.S. does too much militarily in the Middle East. He also advises a “defensive defense” strategy in East Asia, the ineffectiveness and overuse of economic sanctions, and decoupling from China.

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  2. Vietnam soldier’s family reunited with dog tag after journey around the globe

    Fifty years ago today, the last American combat troops left Vietnam. Harry Smith shares the remarkable lengths former Senator Jim Webb and a group of Notre Dame students went to return a dog tag from the battlefield to the family of a Vietnam veteran.

     

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  3. Vietnam soldier’s family reunited with dog tag after journey around the globe

    Fifty years ago today, the last American combat troops left Vietnam. Harry Smith shares the remarkable lengths former Senator Jim Webb and a group of Notre Dame students went to return a dog tag from the battlefield to the family of a Vietnam veteran.

    Originally published at news.nd.edu.

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    Michael Desch

    Michael Desch

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  4. A U.S. Marine lost his dog tag in the Vietnam war. A tour group just found it.

    Cpl. Larry Hughes lost his military dog tag while serving with the U.S. Marine Corps in Vietnam nearly 60 years ago.

    The story of how Larry Hughes’s family received his dog tag on Feb. 17 was four months in the making and involves former U.S. senator from Virginia Jim Webb, 30 college students and a Vietnamese rice paddy farmer.

     

  5. Vietnam veteran's dog tag found in rice field, returned to family 57 years later: 'Means the world'

    In October 2022, former Virginia Senator Jim Webb and Notre Dame Professor Michael Desch took a group of students to visit the province. While exploring near an airstrip used by the U.S. military, a villager approached them and said he had six dog tags that were found plowing rice fields over the years.

  6. Peace through strength? US rattles China with new defenses near Taiwan.

    “We’re not talking about putting intermediate-range ballistic missiles there, which would look like an ability to attack targets in China,” says Eugene Gholz.

  7. A Climate Scientist Is Evaluating the U.S.’s Spy Programs

    “It is a fascinating part of the intelligence community and potentially one that, if used correctly, can make a difference,” Michael Desch said. “And I would say appointing a climate scientist would be an example of thinking about the board the way it’s been used most effectively.”

  8. Kansas City’s role in making doomsday weapons is a boon for the local economy

    “There’s a lot of sophisticated electronics, you know, timers, fuses, conventional explosives that help the nuclear explosives go off,” says Eugene Gholz, a political science professor at the University of Notre Dame.

    Originally published at news.nd.edu.

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  9. How Russian Tanks Captured by Ukraine Are Helping the Fight Against Putin

    Michael Desch, director of the Notre Dame International Security Center, said he did not think Ukraine's recent success in the Kharkiv region was due to any difference in tanks or other armored vehicles.

    Originally published at news.nd.edu.

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    Michael Desch

    Michael Desch

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  10. Biden’s UN balancing act: Condemning war while advocating broad agenda

    With his vision of the democracy-autocracy struggle and specifically, the war in Ukraine, “Biden is speaking and acting with a high degree of moral certainty that we are on the side of the angels,” says Michael Desch, a professor of international relations at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana and founding director of the university’s International Security Center.

    Originally published at news.nd.edu.

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  11. Ukrainian forces are stepping up efforts to retake Kherson

    Features interview with Michael Desch, Packey J. Dee Professor of International Relations and Brian and Jeannelle Brady Family Director of the Notre Dame International Security Center. (starts at 9:13).

    Originally published at news.nd.edu.

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    Michael Desch

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  12. War is a choice, not a trap: The right lessons from Thucydides

    Written by Michael Desch, Brian and Jeannelle Brady Family Director of the Notre Dame International Security Center (NDISC) and Packey J. Dee Professor of International Relations. 

    Originally published at news.nd.edu.

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    Michael Desch

    Michael Desch

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  13. Javelin missiles are in short supply and restocking them won't be easy

     Notre Dame professor Eugene Gholz says it's one of almost two dozen Army-run plants across the country that make and refurbish military hardware.

    Originally published at news.nd.edu.

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    Eugene Gholz

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  14. The price of friendship: China has much to offer African governments, but it also wants much in return

    Joshua Eisenman of the University of Notre Dame found that, in Ghana, the department had courted the New Patriotic Party (npp) even when it was out of government.

    Originally published at news.nd.edu.

  15. Ukraine Aid Bill Likely To Pass After DoD's Minor Concessions To Senator Paul

    Meanwhile, Michael Desch, a professor of International Relations at the University of Notre Dame and the director of the Notre Dame International Security Center, opined that the bill will likely intensify the hostilities in Ukraine as well as hinder a diplomatic solution to the conflict.

     

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  16. How would an energy embargo affect Germany’s economy?

    Japanese firms were able to quickly substitute away from previously cheap rare earths and find alternative supplies, according to research by Eugene Gholz of the University of Notre Dame and Llewelyn Hughes of the Australian National University.... In a study of the potential effects of a Russian energy embargo on Europe, Rüdiger Bachmann of the University of Notre Dame and his co-authors find that while the hit could be large, it would be partly offset by the economy’s ability to adapt. 

    Originally published at news.nd.edu.

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  17. Putin is making the same mistakes that doomed Hitler when he invaded the Soviet Union

    “The evidence suggests that Putin thought he could win a quick victory with the deployment of special forces and airborne units,” says Ian Ona Johnson, a professor of military history at the University of Notre Dame.

    Originally published at news.nd.edu.

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  18. We Overestimated Russia

    Ian Ona Johnson, assistant professor of military history, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana.

    Originally published at news.nd.edu.

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  19. Momentous Changes in the U.S. Marine Corps’ Force Organization Deserve Debate

    Retired generals raise telling questions about the current commandant’s radical new ideas...

    Jim Webb was a Marine infantry officer in Vietnam, Navy secretary (1987-88) and a U.S. senator from Virginia (2007-13). He is the Distinguished Fellow at Notre Dame’s International Security Center.

  20. If China aids Russia, what options would the U.S. have?

    But sanctions may not stop China from stepping in as an economic buffer, according to Joshua Eisenman, a senior fellow in China studies for the American Foreign Policy Council. 

    Originally published at news.nd.edu.