David Brostoff

PhD Student @BrownUPoliSci | @AmericanU SIS ‘24 | Interested in Strategic Planning, Sino-Russian Relations, and Classical Realist Thought

[David Brostoff @BrostoffDavid]

Between May 7–10, India and Pakistan fought an 88-hour war known as Operation Sindoor. What strategic and operational lessons did Indian planners learn from these four days in May?

My latest in @WarOnTheRocks with @splalwani and Shailender Arya.

[Daniel Markey @MarkeyDaniel]

The Implications of US–China Relations for Afghanistan’s War, from 9/11 through 2025 https://t.co/Mp86TgsEPb

[Le Rubicon @LeRubicon_org]

« Cette guerre brève mais conséquente de l’Inde contre le Pakistan, connue sous le nom d’opération « Sindoor », pourrait s’élever au rang de creuset pour la pensée stratégique et opérationnelle indienne à long terme. »

Retrouvez l'analyse de Sameer Lalwani (@splalwani), conseiller auprès du Special Competitive Studies Project, chercheur non-résident senior au German Marshall Fund et affilié au programme d’études de sécurité du MIT, Shailender Arya, colonel retraité de l’armée indienne et conseiller chez The Asia Group et David Brostoff (@BrostoffDavid), chercheur contractuel au Stimson Cente, traduit en français sur #LeRubicon.
https://t.co/1Q7QDLLMeK

[Le Rubicon @LeRubicon_org]

« L’Inde s’est montrée disposée à franchir de nouvelles lignes rouges, à prendre davantage de risques et, s’inspirant des leçons de l’Ukraine et du Moyen-Orient, à mener des frappes aériennes et de missiles sur des cibles en profondeur au sein du territoire adverse. »

Retrouvez l'analyse de Sameer Lalwani (@splalwani), conseiller auprès du Special Competitive Studies Project, chercheur non-résident senior au German Marshall Fund et affilié au programme d’études de sécurité du MIT, Shailender Arya, colonel retraité de l’armée indienne et conseiller chez The Asia Group et David Brostoff (@BrostoffDavid), chercheur contractuel au Stimson Cente, traduit en français sur #LeRubicon.
https://t.co/1Q7QDLMk4i

[Le Rubicon @LeRubicon_org]

📖 | Les cinq leçons de l’opération « Sindoor »

Retrouvez l'analyse de Sameer Lalwani (@splalwani), conseiller auprès du Special Competitive Studies Project, chercheur non-résident senior au German Marshall Fund et affilié au programme d’études de sécurité du MIT, Shailender Arya, colonel retraité de l’armée indienne et conseiller chez The Asia Group et David Brostoff (@BrostoffDavid), chercheur contractuel au Stimson Cente, traduit en français sur #LeRubicon.
https://t.co/1Q7QDLLMeK

[David Sacks @DavidMSacks1]

Coming in November: THE REALIST, the first book to tell the full story of Hans Morgenthau, the man who escaped Nazi Germany and pioneered realism—the approach to foreign policy that guided the United States through the Cold War and explains today’s world.

https://t.co/97zagIV7pN

[David Brostoff @BrostoffDavid]

“Each great power [🇺🇸🇨🇳] senses that new technologies will help it overcome the other’s comparative advantages, providing hope for a swift win at low cost. The more they indulge this prewar hope, the more likely they are to find themselves in a protracted conflict.”

[Josh Rovner @JoshRovner1]

In @ForeignAffairs I write about how short wars become long ones https://t.co/PzJkbNKqWc

[Council on Foreign Relations @CFR_org]

“[Former U.S. Secretary of State] Henry Kissinger was concerned in the last years of his life that we were headed for a war with China on the current trajectory. And I think the same thing,” says Robert D. Blackwill, distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, senior fellow at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, and former senior fellow at CFR.

🔗 Watch the full conversation: https://t.co/jn6nFUciRj

[Maggie Haberman @maggieNYT]

HOW TRUMP TOOK THE US TO WAR WITH IRAN: @jonathanvswan and report for our forthcoming book, out June 23 with excerpt here https://t.co/BfsdoMJWSS

[Hurst Publishers @HurstPublishers]

OUT IN NOVEMBER 🗓️

'The Realist' by David M. Sacks is the first biography of Hans Morgenthau, the theoretician who escaped Nazi Germany and pioneered the ‘realist’ approach to international relations, now resurgent in global politics.

Pre-order ➡️ https://t.co/eYbdQMq10V

[Yonatan Touval @Yonatan_Touval]

The algebra of the war makers will have been flawless. But what they cannot read, they will not have reckoned with — and wars are made of resentment, dishonor, loyalty and grief as much as of algorithms and fire.

My Guest Essay in @nytimes: https://t.co/2g8dXJoe28

[FSI Stanford @FSIStanford]

"Research requires patience, but it’s essential if you want to understand how foreign policy actually develops."

@JimGoldgeier shares how he became interested in foreign policy, how his career developed, and his advice to students just starting out. https://t.co/CxyXoKcwvE

[David Brostoff @BrostoffDavid]

Historical metaphors are seductive and every so often, U.S. strategists call for Washington to pursue rapprochement with Moscow against Beijing in a “reverse Kissinger.” The idea is intuitive, but — as I wrote last year — it’s based on bad history.

https://t.co/Hkcv4Bbd6j

[David Brostoff @BrostoffDavid]

This week marks the 54th anniversary of Nixon’s visit to China — one of the most consequential moments of the Cold War.

[David Brostoff @BrostoffDavid]

Nixon (and Kissinger) seized the opportunity and opened relations with China, reshuffling the balance of power. The Kremlin faced two challenges: NATO on its Western front and China on its Eastern front.

As historians Danhui Li and Yafeng Xia note:

[John Richard Cookson @JRCookson]

Eighty years ago today, US diplomat George Kennan sent his Long Telegram from Moscow.

“In summary, we have here a political force committed fanatically to the belief that with US there can be no permanent modus vivendi.”

[Milan Vaishnav @MilanV]

.@splalwani: "Operation Sindoor was more than a four-day skirmish with Pakistan. It was a turning point in Indian strategic thinking." https://t.co/PIDT4lCgtu

[Jehangir Ali @Gaamuk]

Perhaps the clearest shift in Indian strategic thinking since the May war is that New Delhi is convinced that it faces a two-front “nightmare” of active cooperation between China and Pakistan.

https://t.co/vD1sJ7dOmo

[Toni Michel @ToniMichel_]

Deep Learning From Operation Sindoor: Five Takeaways From a Four-Day War
@WarOnTheRocks

[Aakar Patel @Aakar__Patel]

Deep Learning From Operation Sindoor: Five Takeaways From a Four-Day War

good piece https://t.co/jEAP0rYONG