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Cato Institute - Market Adjustment and Foreign Policy Failure
May 16, 2023
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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Vietnam soldier’s family reunited with dog tag after journey around the globe
March 29, 2023
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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Vietnam soldier’s family reunited with dog tag after journey around the globe
March 29, 2023
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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The Washington Post
A U.S. Marine lost his dog tag in the Vietnam war. A tour group just found it.
February 24, 2023
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.
Fox News
Vietnam veteran's dog tag found in rice field, returned to family 57 years later: 'Means the world'
February 18, 2023
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.
The Christian Science Monitor
Peace through strength? US rattles China with new defenses near Taiwan.
February 09, 2023
“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.
Scientific American
A Climate Scientist Is Evaluating the U.S.’s Spy Programs
February 03, 2023
“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.”
Kansas City’s role in making doomsday weapons is a boon for the local economy
February 01, 2023
“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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Newsweek
How Russian Tanks Captured by Ukraine Are Helping the Fight Against Putin
October 08, 2022
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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The Christian Science Monitor
Biden’s UN balancing act: Condemning war while advocating broad agenda
September 21, 2022
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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Ukrainian forces are stepping up efforts to retake Kherson
July 28, 2022
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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War is a choice, not a trap: The right lessons from Thucydides
July 19, 2022
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.
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NPR
Javelin missiles are in short supply and restocking them won't be easy
May 27, 2022
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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The Economist
The price of friendship: China has much to offer African governments, but it also wants much in return
May 20, 2022
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.
Ukraine Aid Bill Likely To Pass After DoD's Minor Concessions To Senator Paul
May 17, 2022
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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The Economist
How would an energy embargo affect Germany’s economy?
April 30, 2022
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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CNN
Putin is making the same mistakes that doomed Hitler when he invaded the Soviet Union
April 02, 2022
“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.
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Newsweek
We Overestimated Russia
March 26, 2022
Ian Ona Johnson, assistant professor of military history, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana.
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The Wall Street Journal
Momentous Changes in the U.S. Marine Corps’ Force Organization Deserve Debate
March 25, 2022
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.
MarketWatch
If China aids Russia, what options would the U.S. have?
March 16, 2022
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.
