Will Rogers once observed that “when you get into trouble 5,000 miles from home, you’ve got to have been looking…
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Edward “Skip” Gnehm served as Ambassador to Kuwait shortly after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, from 1991 to 1994, and…
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The operational level of foreign policy is the essential crucible for the formulation of diplomatic approaches to international challenges. This…
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2014 marks the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I, the devastating “war to end all wars.” While…
In the wake of the terrible tragedy of Malaysian flight 17, which was shot down over Ukraine on July 17,…
In 2001 Ann Wright served as the first political officer in the newly reopened U.S. Embassy in Kabul. Two years…