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May 28 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
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1/ Harvard Kennedy School 2026 graduates include a Medal of Honor recipient: Patrick Payne. Image
2/ Harvard Commencement is always a festival of distinctions. For me, today’s awarding of a degree to a Kennedy School graduate who has the rare distinction of having received a Medal of Honor is a first.
3/ Harvard is proud to have had more graduates who received Medals of Honor than any educational institution other than West Point and the Naval Academy.
4/ In awarding then Sergeant Major Patrick Payne the Medal of Honor at a White House ceremony on September 11, 2020, President Trump said: “Pat has said that as soon as our soldiers’ boots hit the ground, they are ambassadors of the American way of life. Everywhere they go, the men and women of our armed forces instill our friends with hope, our enemies with dread and our fellow citizens with unyielding American pride.”
5/ Patrick’s Medal was awarded for his part in one of the most amazing hostage rescue missions in US military history that freed 75 ISIS hostages who were about to be executed. For more on the story, read here. army.mil/medalofhonor/p…

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May 25
1/ As we fire up our grills for Memorial Day and look forward to July 4th when we will celebrate the 250th birthday of this nation, we should all pause and reflect.
2/ What do we the living owe those who gave their utmost to secure the freedom that we enjoy every day?

Freedom that we have become so accustomed to that most of us essentially take it for granted.

As one of my great mentors Henry Kissinger frequently noted, too many Americans imagine that “peace is the natural condition of mankind.”

In fact, as the bumper sticker version reminds us: “freedom is not free.”
3/ This is a topic I’ve wrestled with for most of my professional career.

As I prepare to pause for the “national moment of silence” at 3:00 PM on Memorial Day, I will reflect on ideas that I tried to communicate in the articles linked below.
Read 9 tweets
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May 22
1/ Who missed Hormuz?
2/ When asked during a recent @60Minutes interview whether Israel anticipated that Iran might move to close the Strait of Hormuz, an uncharacteristically sheepish Bibi Netanyahu (@netanyahu) almost completely avoided eye contact with interviewer Major Garrett (@MajorCBS) — eventually conceding that “the problem of the Hormuz Strait was understood as the fighting went on.”
3/ When asked about whether the US anticipated Iran would close the strait and conduct strikes on its neighbors, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (@PeteHegseth) responded: “I can’t say we anticipated necessarily that’s exactly how they would react.”
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May 18
1/ Wonders to be thankful for.
2/ One of the wonders of teaching at Harvard is that each year, a new crop of remarkable students shows up full of aspirations to make the world a better place. And indeed, some actually do.
3/ My course “Central Challenges of American National Security, Strategy, and the Press” is designed primarily for grad students at HKS, plus a select number from the Business and Law Schools. But we also take 10 undergraduates each year.
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May 7
1/ China Challenge: Believe it or Not*

In the two months before the current war with Iran, which nation expanded its national strategic reserve of oil: the US (which initiated the war) or China (which was simply preparing for what could happen)?
2/ Answer: China.

Between January and February 2026, China added ~74 million barrels to its strategic stockpile at a rate of 1.24 million barrels/day—more than double its 2025 pace of 570k barrels per day, or about 117% above the previous year’s average.
3/ Meanwhile, the US added 4 million barrels to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve over the same window, roughly 1/18th of what China added.
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May 6
1/ How much additional cash is the war against Iran earning Putin’s Russia?
2/ Since the war began on February 27, Russia’s monthly oil revenues have nearly doubled from $9.75 billion to $19 billion.
3/ This means that Putin is receiving an extra $150 million dollars a day as a result of the war.
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Apr 27
1/ Assassination and the American Presidency:
What History Tells Us
2/ As we continue to digest the shocking shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday, it is worth pausing to consider a brute fact from history. Of the 45 men who have served as President of the United States, how many have been the target of serious assassination attempts that nearly ended their lives?
3/ Answer: more than 1/4! See the list below. Image
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