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…
On November 4, 1979, some 3000 radical Iranian students protested at the U.S. embassy. The embassy had been taken over…
Edward “Skip” Gnehm served as Ambassador to Kuwait shortly after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, from 1991 to 1994, and…
With the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, the long-awaited reunification between East and West Germany began. A…
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…
The act of beheading has been used as a means for execution and retribution for millennia. The guillotine, which was…
“It was the worst day we have ever seen, but it brought out the best in all of us.” –Senator…