This Friday, H.R. McMaster and Bradley Bowman rebut calls to reduce military assistance to Ukraine, arguing that the conflict is central to US security interests and challenging the “axis of aggressors”; Jendayi Frazer offers a blueprint for a strategic refresh of US-Africa relations to advance key US foreign policy goals; and Steven J. Davis joins other leading economists in filing an amicus brief challenging the economic arguments offered by the Trump administration in imposing tariffs under emergency authorities.

Hoover Daily Report | July 11, 2025

Today, Elizabeth Economy and Amy Zegart discuss the impact of DeepSeek’s new powerful large language models, apparently developed at a fraction of the cost of US competitors. Andrew Roberts asks what the new seismic shift will be in the nature of modern warfare. Soner Cagaptay explores Turkey’s new doctrine of drone diplomacy. And Paul Peterson asks what the rookie upstart Republican Party of the 1850s and ’60s can tell us about prospects for Elon Musk’s new third party.

Today, Abbas Milani and Siegfried Hecker call on Iran’s leadership to abandon nuclear enrichment and to focus instead on furthering their civilian nuclear power program; H.R. McMaster debunks the resurgent myth that Iran’s 1953 coup was primarily the result of American intelligence agencies, suggesting that a “superficial understanding of history is often more misleading than complete ignorance”; and the Stanford Report profiles the recently launched Technology Policy Accelerator, a Hoover effort to offer informed perspectives on technological innovation to leaders in business and government as well as the public.

Hoover Daily Report | July 9, 2025