Daniel Wirls wirls@ucsc.edu wirls@ucsc.edu Daniel Wirls’ research interests range across American politics, institutions, public policy, and political history. Most Recent Trump’s Planned Military Buildup is Based on Faulty Claims, not Good Strategy Daniel Wirls Latest Articles 1 Human Rights Watch’s Belkis Wille on the Human Cost in Ukraine by Scott Douglas Jacobsen 2 Seoul’s Strategic Blind Spot by Ju Hyung Kim 3 The High-Stakes Gamble to Rebuild American Energy by Andrew Hackney 4 Inside the Case that Should Have Broken Kenya’s Ivory Cartel — and Didn’t by Chris Morris 5 Furloughing Workers for Armageddon: Trump, Nuclear Weapons and the NNSA by Binoy Kampmark