William Joseph Burns, known as Bill to his colleagues, stepped down as Deputy Secretary of State in October 2014 after…
Will Rogers once observed that “when you get into trouble 5,000 miles from home, you’ve got to have been looking…
Edward “Skip” Gnehm served as Ambassador to Kuwait shortly after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, from 1991 to 1994, and…
The operational level of foreign policy is the essential crucible for the formulation of diplomatic approaches to international challenges. This…
(From Left to Right): The U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, after a bomb attack in 1983; Marine Corps Sgt. Clayton…
The Middle East has been a complicated, if not violent, region for millennia, which has only been exacerbated by recent…