Press | 2021

“A nonpartisan military under democratic control seemed abstract, something for other nations to worry about. The mob attacks on the U.S. Capitol on Jan 6 are a sudden reminder of just how vital a nonpartisan military really is.”

 “It affirms the rule of law, clearly calls out the attack on our Constitutional processes, reminds the force of their duties, and affirms the election outcome. I think it hits exactly the right tone,” Golby said in a quoted tweet by Defense One. 

“And consider the way special ops are portrayed in popular culture, in movies. There is an identity that [extremist] groups want to have. They want to emulate the way military members dress, the way they carry weapons because that portrays an image of confidence and credibility,” said Golby addressing the recruitment of veterans into extremist…

Sheena Greitens sounds off in “To cancel or not?: IOC, Japan press ahead with Tokyo Games” published in the AP: “I think it highly likely that China will frame the Winter Games … in terms of China’s successful model of pandemic management and global health leadership”… “I would think that Japanese leaders would be keen…

Clements Center Faculty Fellow Sheena Greitens sits down with Eric Gomez of the CATO Institute and geopolitics author Robert D. Kaplan to discuss Taiwan’s defense against the Peoples Republic of China after they stated that Taiwan will return to them by 2049 in “Could China Conquer Taiwan?”.

‘The fact that Pelosi is talking to Milley about the topic is “alarming, and it shows just how dysfunctional things are right now,” said Jim Golby’ in last week’s article from the Washington Post. 

Clements Center Senior Fellow Jim Golby sounds off on the National Guard’s involvement in last week’s breach of the U.S. Capitol, noting “the president wasn’t consulted at a moment of national crisis, and the vice-president was, suggests the commander-in-chief was missing in action and not in command.” Golby also notes that the contrast between the heavy-handed…

China’s approach to surveillance, particularly its dystopian-sounding Social Credit System, has raised serious human rights concerns, particularly in its treatment of minority groups. Sheena Chestnut Greitens, Clements Center senior fellow, associate professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, joins Corbin K. Barthold on Tech Policy podcast to…

Listen now as Exec. Director Will Inboden discusses last week’s siege of the US Capitol and the subsequent political fallout with Canada’s top news station’s radio show “The Current.” 

In this episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Amb. (ret.) Bonnie Jenkins discusses the array of treaty obligations, international law, and other agreements that make up the arms control and nuclear non-proliferation regime. Paul Pope, senior fellow at the Intelligence Studies Project, introduces Marigny Kirschke-Schwartz, a Brumley Fellow at the Strauss Center for International Security…

Exec. Director Inboden commented on the current national crisis for the Boston Globe, local Austin news station KVUE, and USA Today this week.   

Listen now as Executive Director Will Inboden sits down with the Texas Standard to discuss the national security implications of riots in the wake of yesterday’s storming of the US Capitol.

In “The National Guard has been called out in Washington, D.C. Here’s what you need to know.”, Senior Fellow Jim Golby and U.S. Air War College Assistant Professor Carrie A. Lee ebreak down the mobilization of the National Guard in our nation’s capital.

In “The military would put down Michael Flynn’s proposed insurrection”, Clements Center Academic Board of Reference member and Duke University Professor Peter Feaver and Clements Center Senior Fellow Jim Golby analyze Gen. Michael Flynn’a suggestion that President Trump could impose martial law and deploy the military to re-run the election, and consider the consequences. 

Jim Golby, Clements Center Senior Fellow, and Peter Feaver, Clements Center Academic Board of Reference member and Duke University Professor, examine the current state of Civil-Military affairs in “Biden Inherits A Challenging Civil-Military Legacy” published in War on the Rocks.