Foreign Policy Research Institute

You are listening to the Arms Control Wonk podcast, a podcast on arms control, disarmament and nonproliferation.

I'm Dr. Jeffrey Lewis, the William J. Perry lecturer at Stanford University and a distinguished research fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.

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A region can fire interceptors in hours that take months or years to replace.

The Foreign Policy Research Institute estimated that in the first 96 hours of Operation Epic Fury, forces expended approximately 5,197 munitions across 35 types.

Whatever the exact operational roles of regional actors, the broader lesson for Gulf defense is clear.

Saturation campaigns consume missile and air defense capacity faster than defense industries can replenish it.

Back then, the working assumption in a lot of Washington rooms was that this could still be contained.

I wrote a piece about that in, in December of 2023 for the Foreign Policy Research Institute, and I called it The Reemergence of the Palestine Question in World Politics.

The argument had three parts.

Part one was that Palestine functions for Arab publics as what I call a gateway to dissent, not because everyone in the region is single-mindedly obsessed with Palestine at the expense of their own politics.

Rob Lee put it to me in one sentence, "This coming battle of Donbas is a culmination of twelve years of fighting." Two guests have just spent a week driving that ground.

Rob Lee, Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, one of the most respected analysts in Russian military anywhere, and R- Francis Farrell of the Kyiv Independent, who gets closer to the fighting more often than any other English language speaking reporter still working in this country.

Zaporizhzhia, the Donbas, Izium, and Kharkiv on the way back.

This episode is what they brought home.

Now, the Yin family is also credited as investing in Renshaw County's development of science and technology industries and attracting investment from the U.S. APAPA is a locus of pro-CCP activity, and their mission is explicitly political.

Jackie Deal, a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia, said in a quote, APAPA says their mission is to advance Asian and Pacific Islander communities through increased leadership and civic engagement.

I would love to hear Ro Khanna making a statement about this, but something tells me he probably won't.

Now, Yin also made inroads in U.S. politics in the early aughts, and he was appointed to the California Commission for Economic Development in 2010 by then-Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.