Melanie Marlowe

National security, constitutional law. Net Assessment Pod host, @CSIS. Idaho girl. World's Best Aunt. Probably won't reply. Fmr @WarontheRocks, @miamiuniversity

[Steven Swinford @Steven_Swinford]

The head of the Metropolitan Police said that Sadiq Khan's decision to block Palantir's deal with Scotland Yard will lead to cuts to frontline services

Sir Mark Rowley tells @TimesRadio: 'We've got to shrink by 1,150 people. That will be 4,400 people smaller than Met will be than when I started as Commissioner three and a half years ago. That's really tough.

'One of the ways we're trying to deal with it is by automating some of our bureaucracy so we can save that money without damaging the frontline. Now we don't have that technology, we're going to be making hundreds of cuts to frontline services, which is not what I wanted to do this year.

'We had a plan to avoid cutting frontline services by using clever technology. Now we won't have that technology at the speed that we were planning. We will be cutting some frontline services'

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 BREAKING: John Healey has resigned as Defence Secretary over Keir Starmer's lack of funding for defence

[Nicole Penn @nmpenn]

Gordon Wood wrote the lead essay for "Democracy and the American Revolution," the first volume in @AEI's "America at 250" series. I had to pick my jaw up off the ground the first time I read how he summed up the democratic force the Revolution unleashed:

[Emmanuel Macron @EmmanuelMacron]

The Patrouille de France flying over the Statue of Liberty today. What a symbol. 250 years of shared history.

[Melanie Marlowe @profmarlowe]

@CrispinBurke No! Thanks for flagging it! This is correct. We have known about this for years and are in a very precarious position now.

[Melanie Marlowe @profmarlowe]

Anyone who thinks we have endless munitions and it's all going to be fine should take a peek at where the money for future munitions is supposed to be coming from.

Nothing is assured.

[CSPAN @cspan]

.@SenMcConnell: "I think it's safe to conclude there will not be another reconciliation bill. So, it's really not an option."

@SenatorCollins: "I agree with that assessment."

[Melanie Marlowe @profmarlowe]

🇺🇸 🚀 🇮🇹

[Reuters @Reuters]

NASA named a crew for its next Artemis mission, a spacecraft docking demonstration in Earth's orbit next year that will test landers from Elon Musk's SpaceX and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin for the first time in space https://t.co/p0vTQUe9ga

[Melanie Marlowe @profmarlowe]

The concern didn't start today.

https://t.co/tSgXHuHTvT

[Anthony Adragna @AnthonyAdragna]

🚨🚨 @SenMcConnell at an Air Force appropriations hearing:

"I think it's safe to conclude there will not be another reconciliation bill. So it's really not an option."

Senate Appropriations Chair @SenatorCollins: "I agree with that assessment."

[Melanie Marlowe @profmarlowe]

Hester Prynne would like to have a word with the person who thinks that 58% is "puritanical."

[Axios @axios]

Americans' morals hit a puritanical streak https://t.co/cXnkiM1IJ8

[Phil Stewart @phildstewart]

BREAKING: A U.S. Navy surface drone found and rescued the two crew from a U.S. Apache attack helicopter that crashed into waters near Oman’s coast, the U.S. military’s Central Command told Reuters, in an apparent first.

[Richard Reinsch @Reinsch84]

Loud and proud that @CivitasInst’s collection of essays on the Declaration of Independence, featuring Bill McClay, Sam Gregg, Brad Thompson, Joe Bessette, John Yoo, and more, is now available for pre-order. https://t.co/mjcVjxjeyD

Mark Helprin refers to it as “a rich, deep, encyclopedic view of the greatest--and perhaps most beautiful, most stirring--political document of all time.”

George Will says "These luminous essays demonstrate Constitutional scholar Walter Berns' formulation: The Constitution is related to the Declaration of Independence 'as effect is related to cause.'

Steven Hayward "This superb Civitas collection has assembled the best roster of interpreters since Thomas Jefferson wrote alone, and as we approach July 4, this collection will be indispensable to everyone who wants to cultivate a deep appreciation for our nation's founding moment."

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

Heartbroken to hear about Gordon Wood. If you don’t know what a titan he is, @aei’s video tribute as part of the Kristol Award ceremony from earlier this year will give you a sense. https://t.co/D75ybkNO4p

[Melanie Marlowe @profmarlowe]

Industry is investing and ready to go. But what is the demand signal? What is *on contract*? And how long does it take to produce a PAC-3 or Tomahawk? I applaud many DOW reforms. But *talking* about getting the DIB at maximum output is not the same as doing it. And pretending there aren't tradeoffs when you are expending a ton is simply crazy.

[Melanie Marlowe @profmarlowe]

as predicted

[Reuters @Reuters]

Germany and France drop joint fighter jet project https://t.co/uD2Ys0fry4 https://t.co/uD2Ys0fry4

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

As always, a good audience with His Majesty King Charles III of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. I thank His Majesty, the people, and the entire United Kingdom for their ironclad support for our people.

Photo: The Royal Family.

@RoyalFamily

[Melanie Marlowe @profmarlowe]

Pretending that the US is going to produce the weapons necessary to supply Europe on the timeline it and the US demand is hallucinatory. "Buy American weapons!" doesn't carry the weight it did three years ago. And I am very sorry about that.

[Melanie Marlowe @profmarlowe]

But I am told that there is no problem with American inventories and that these will magically appear as needed.

Switzerland isn't the only country looking at other options. Read the news the last five years.

[Franz-Stefan Gady @HoansSolo]

Switzerland weighs Franco-Italian alternative to US air defences https://t.co/n8Mhj19Wou

[Melanie Marlowe @profmarlowe]

Heartbreaking he was taken just a month before the 250th, but what an impressive man. 🇺🇸

[Bob Elder @southernphd]

I never met Gordon Wood, but I have a story about him.

In one of my grad school seminars, we read Wood’s Creation of the American Republic. The sheer erudition and evidentiary depth of the book bowled me over.

Back then, before kids and before life accelerated to warp speed, I used to call my mother every Sunday to catch up. Lots of times, we ended up talking about what I was reading that week in my grad seminars or for leisure. Mom had an omnivorous mind, and she was always looking for something else to read. She was a true intellectual—curious about almost everything, always eager to integrate new arguments or ideas into her existing schemas of how the world worked or to have those schemas challenged and changed.

When we talked that particular Sunday, I think I tried to describe to her part of Wood’s argument about the relationship between the state constitutions during the Articles of Confederation era and the federal Constitution. Maybe I was tired, maybe I didn’t completely understand her questions, but the end result of the conversation was that Mom had questions about Wood’s argument that I didn’t answer satisfactorily. I told her that she should probably just read the book, and we said goodbye.

She did eventually read the book, but the next Sunday, Mom started our conversation by saying, “Well, I had a lovely conversation with Gordon Wood this week.” For a split second, I thought she was joking, but then I remembered who I was dealing with. I started to sweat. “How?” I asked. A whole variety of unlikely scenarios in which the foremost historian of the American Revolution and my mother, who lived in Wichita, Kansas, might have met ran through my mind. “Oh, I just looked up his office phone number on Brown’s website and called, and he picked up!” Mom said. I decided I would have to find another profession.

As it ended up, Gordon Wood spent about an hour on the phone with my mother answering her questions about the Constitution. Ever since, I’ve had a soft spot for the man when I imagine him picking up the phone in Providence and finding Becky Elder from Wichita on the other end of the line. His generosity in that moment spoke very well of him.

Rest in peace, professor.

[U.S. Navy @USNavy]

⚓📰 #USNAVY UPDATE: U.S. Navy Establishes NSA Stirling in Australia

PERTH, Australia – As of May 30, the U.S. Navy has established a new naval support activity in Perth, Western Australia as part of AUKUS, the enhanced trilateral security partnership between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. This move follows the trilateral Joint Statement on May 30 confirming that key milestones continue to be met for Submarine Rotational Force – West (SRF-West).

“Establishment of NSA Stirling with our AUKUS partners demonstrates our command mission to support the Fleet, warfighter, and family,” said Vice Adm. Scott Gray, Commander, Navy Installations Command. “By providing essential services to U.S. personnel and their families, NSA Stirling will enhance rotational submarine force readiness.”