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The Headache That Is the Fourth of July Party

The Fourth of July is a celebration of the United States’ independence. It is a day of family, friends, food,…

There was a lot of unfinished business on the Korean peninsula in the 1940’s. It had been ruled by the Empire…

During the Congo Crisis (1960-1966), which began after the colony was granted independence from Belgium, the province of Katanga declared…

The Lebanese Civil War was a 15-year conflict that took the lives of more than 130,000 people. Throughout the early…

It took place in the shadow of the dramatic evacuation from Saigon, which signaled the close of an era and…

A colony of Belgium until 1962, Rwanda became dominated politically by the minority Tutsis. During the independence movement, the majority…

Housing for FSOs was not always provided on assignments abroad. Francis Terry McNamara had to find housing for himself and…

It was the first major foreign policy crisis for the U.S. since the end of the Cold War. Iraq, which…

November 4, 1979 – Radical Iranian students take over the U.S. embassy in Tehran and hold 52 Americans hostage. The…

Back to Memoirs and Occasional Papers French Covert Action in the American Revolution “If Benjamin Franklin’s covert operations are not…