Before being absorbed and restructured by the State Department in 1999, the United States Information Agency (USIA) was an independent…
From November 1983 to March of 1985 negotiations between the United States and the USSR languished, leading the U.S. to…
In 1976, the USSR deployed hundreds of intermediate-range SS-20s (pictured), which were an upgrade of the older SS-3 and SS-4…
In the 1980s, one of the focal points of U.S. foreign policy was the rise of leftist militants throughout the…
U.S. inter-agency coordination on countering terrorism was limited, for bureaucratic and technical reasons, prior to the mid-1980s. As hijackings and…
The Salvadoran Civil War, lasting from 1979-1992, pitted the military-led government of El Salvador against a coalition of five left-wing guerrilla…
Intent on actively opposing the rule of Philippines president Ferdinand Marcos, Senator Benigno Aquino returned from exile in the U.S.…
Robert Gerhard Neumann (1916–1999), seen at right with wife Marlen, served as U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, Morocco, and Saudi Arabia.…
On March 23rd, 1983, President Ronald Reagan announced the Strategic Defense Initiative, signaling a massive paradigm shift in U.S. policy…
In the Iran-Contra Affair, Colonel Oliver North and others within the National Security Council and CIA used back channels and…