Adam Mount

@ajmount

Director, Defense Posture Project, Federation of American Scientists; fmr. CAP, CFR, Ph.D. ; personal tweets rt≠e; amount@fas.org. Banners .

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    6 Feb 2020

    Debating whether North Korea can be deterred has largely kept us from debating the best way to deter. I asked these four excellent teams to contrast their perspectives, out now in 's Survival.

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  2. 31 Dec 2020

    So glad to see this new Pentagon team coming together. These are real experts who won't just do repair work on things like process and civ-mil, but actively challenge destructive policy dogma. It feels good to be optimistic about a new year in defense policy.

    I will be absolutely humbled to serve alongside such stellar leaders as and in support of the amazing DoD workforce that works tirelessly to defend our nation every day. 🇺🇸
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    30 Dec 2020

    It should not be revolutionary to build a foreign policy around the aim of making American’s lives better, but it is. Good on and team for clearly and patiently making this case.

    Under President Biden, we will measure our foreign policy against a simple metric: Will it make the lives of working people better, safer, easier? The United States will again be engaged with the world, animated by a foreign policy for the middle class.
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    29 Dec 2020

    In July of 1776 the entire of city of Boston was closed so they could safely inoculate for smallpox. It lasted months and no one could leave once it began. They did it again in 1778. The Founders would be proud that the government was protecting its citizens from disease.

    60 million Americans are subject to a stay at home order or curfew. 11 million are right here in Ohio. What would the Founders say?
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  5. Retweeted
    22 Dec 2020

    Me and have the amendment ready. Send the bill back, and we will put in the $2,000 we’ve been fighting for that your party has been blocking.

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  6. Retweeted
    22 Dec 2020

    It will never stop being disgusting

    BREAKING: Trump has pardoned four former U.S. service members who were convicted of killing Iraqi civilians while working as Blackwater contractors in 2007.
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  7. Retweeted
    22 Dec 2020

    Candor is more important than comfort if we’re going to create change. And so I wrote for ⁦⁩ about the financial challenges of seeking office. Want new, diverse voices in the halls of power? Remove these very real barriers.

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  8. 22 Dec 2020

    The amount of repair work that needs to be done on civil-military relations can hardly be overstated.

    The murmur just below the surface at the Pentagon. Will turn to the military in his fight to overturn the election?
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  9. Retweeted
    20 Dec 2020

    “No matter our intentions, we were complicit. We collectively perpetuated an anti-democratic leader by conforming to his assault on reality. We may have been victims of the system, but we were also its instruments.”

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  10. Retweeted
    16 Dec 2020

    . and : "The current system for authorizing employment of U.S. nuclear weapons deprives the president of critical information necessary to make a fully informed decision and is therefore insufficient to meet U.S. national interests."

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  11. Retweeted
    15 Dec 2020

    Scoop: Hundreds of people skipped Mike Pompeo’s indoor holiday party today, in wake of health concerns, per two U.S. officials. 900+ invites went out, roughly 70 RSVP’d, fewer actually showed up, per sources.
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    15 Dec 2020

    As dusk crept over the nation’s capital, the National Cathedral tolled its bell 300 times, to honor 300,000 Americans lost to covid. People gathered to watch. Some bent their heads. Others held each other silently. It was the most profoundly tragic thing I’ve ever witnessed.

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  13. Retweeted
    14 Dec 2020

    I believe we should abolish the Electoral College and select our president by the winner of the popular vote, same as every other office. But while it still exists, I was proud to cast my vote in New York for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

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    13 Dec 2020

    Together, we will build a world where the accomplishments of our daughters will be celebrated, rather than diminished.

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    12 Dec 2020

    That’s my church. My family has been a member of this church since slaves built it.

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    Pro-Trump Proud Boys are ripping BLM flags *off of churches* in DC.
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  16. 12 Dec 2020

    This isn't free speech so much as it is suppression of free speech, in this case religious speech. We are not obliged to tolerate this. Democracies that tolerate fascist movements cease to be democracies.

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    Pro-Trump Proud Boys are ripping BLM flags *off of churches* in DC.
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  17. 12 Dec 2020

    White supremacist hate speech and incitements of racial violence are not welcome in this city or this country. Every public figure should condemn this unequivically.

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    Now they’re burning it.
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    11 Dec 2020

    Captured the passing between Jupiter and Saturn tonight as it flew over Washington, DC!

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  19. Retweeted
    10 Dec 2020

    America's real Great Power competition is with itself. Until it's leaders accept this and respond accordingly, recovery is impossible.

    and I wrote about this a year ago, but American decline is being aided and abetted by American leaders. The greatest threat to our national security is us
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  20. Retweeted
    10 Dec 2020

    CBO's latest options for reducing the deficit report estimates that $23.7 billion could be saved between FY 2021 and FY 2030 by reducing the size of the triad to 10 SSBNs and 300 ICBMs ($11.2 billion) and canceling the LRSO/W80-4 ($12.5 billion).

    CBO's latest volume of budget options describes 83 policy options that would decrease federal spending or increase federal revenues over the next decade.
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  21. Retweeted
    7 Dec 2020

    I assumed the nominee would be a woman but I'm not demoralized. As a Black woman in national security, I STILL look at this nomination as a BFD given its historic nature. Even with my civ-mil concerns, I celebrate GEN Austin's nomination.

    Replying to @jenna_dc
    Every woman I know in national security feels like they were just told, yet again, to wait their turn. This is so demoralizing on multiple fronts.
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