The Latest from FP 6/5

The Latest from FP

• The Man Behind Obama's Foreign Policy - An FP Slideshow
• Donilon's Legacy
• Palestine's Nothing Man - By Jonathan Schanzer
• Xi's Not Ready - By Michael Auslin
• We're Not Going to Need a Bigger Boat - By Jerry Meyerle 
• The Latest National Security coverage from FP

  • Donilon out, Rice in; POGO releases draft IG report on Panetta, ZD30; Well, that went well: chiefs exasperate senators during sexual assault hearing; Brett Holmgren is a TSA for Ash; PowerPoints gone wild; And a bit more.
  • We're Not Going to Need a Bigger Boat
  • Are the chiefs swimming upstream on sexual assault?; 73 percent of victims are junior enlisted; Happy birthday, Southcom! Jill Kelley, suing; What caused that cargo plane to crash in Kabul in April; and a bit more.
  • Drones Are Too Slow to Kill Terrorists
  • How to Negotiate Like a Pashtun
  • Turkey unravels; Hagel to Brussels; FP’s Susan Glasser to Politico; Dirty windows at the Pentagon; Amos on ‘zero defects;’ A SEAL comes out; and a bit more.
  • To Boldly Go Across the Hexagonal Board
  • Spies Like Them
  • Middies under investigation; SecDef in Singapore; Only broad outlines for migrating drone ops to DOD; No peace talks for the Taliban; The logjam for furlough appeals; Hagel: The dog ate it; and a bit more.
  • Target Malfunctions Imperil Missile Defense Effort
   
  
  Foreign Policy published a piece recently that was highly critical of Donilon. The NYT this morning: "...Mr. Donilon has also hit a rough patch recently, with the publication of an unflattering profile in Foreign Policy magazine that cast him as a sharp-elbowed infighter and a domineering boss, who had strained relationships with colleagues, including his former deputy, Denis R. McDonough, now the White House chief of staff. Mr. Donilon and Mr. McDonough, however, both denied those reports, with Mr. McDonough saying he had a "very good relationship with Tom." He added, 'It pains me to think anybody would think he's leaving because of me.'"
  
  
  An "honest broker." FP's David Rothkopf writes that Donilon was effective in part because he sought to "remain in the background" and act as an honest broker. But under him, the NSC grew: "Under Donilon not only did the influence of the NSC grow, so too did its size. Today, according to its own estimate, the National Security Staff is over 370, its biggest in history. Donilon is unapologetic about the growth, arguing that the staff needs to be that big to support the needs of the president."
  
  FP's piece on Donilon May 28, here. Read Rothkopf's June 5 piece on Donilon's legacy, here. Slideshow of Donilon's four years, here.