The decision by referendum of the British electorate to depart the European Union — after a campaign in which facts…
On September 1st, 1969, a group of young Libyan military officers overthrew the Libyan royal family and established the Libyan…
Traditionally, Secretaries of State receive a personal protection detail from the State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service (DSS). However, Henry Kissinger…
After the collapse of the USSR, Kyrgyzstan, despite its isolation and lack of development, was considered to be one of…
Recent disagreements over Beijing’s claim to the South China Seas (in which a tribunal constituted under the UN Convention on the…
In 1961, United States forces in Vietnam began to use chemical herbicides and defoliants on South Vietnamese crops, bushes, and…
Former Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Jay Pollard delivered over 800 highly classified documents to the Israeli government over a 17-month…
The Law of the Sea Treaty (formally known as the Third United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea,…
Being caught up in violent political upheaval and forced to evacuate is among the risks of diplomatic service, as at…
In 1945, towards the end of World War II, the U.S. Army and Marine Corps invaded Okinawa with 185,000 troops; a third of the…