Diplomacy as an Instrument of Statecraft: A Practicum Remarks to the Washington International Diplomatic Academy Ambassador Chas W.…
Harlan Lee first became a foreign service officer in 1968 during the Vietnam War, and he was immediately dispatched to…
The inauspicious rise of Joseph McCarthy began in 1950, when the Wisconsin senator was asked to give a speech at…
In 1988, a formidable coalition of Democrats and moderate Republicans passed the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act (CAA) over President Reagan’s veto.…
The currency of Soviet Russia was the ruble—or was it? When General Services Officer Robert Weisberg was posted to the…
On May 1, 1960, at the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union brought down an American U-2 spy…
C. Douglas Dillon was a politician and diplomat who served as U.S. Ambassador to France in the critical post World…
Traditionally, Secretaries of State receive a personal protection detail from the State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service (DSS). However, Henry Kissinger…
In the 1960s, in the depths of the Cold War, the world was viewed in terms of a zero-sum game:…
Former Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Jay Pollard delivered over 800 highly classified documents to the Israeli government over a 17-month…