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August 20, 2019

United States
Back-to-School Reading Special

Every year CFR.org editor Bob McMahon and I record a summer reading episode of CFR’s “The World Next Week” podcast. We usually do it in June as we entertain visions of leisurely summer days yet to co…

Books

June 10, 2013

Defense and Security
TWE Remembers: JFK’s "Strategy of Peace" Speech

Commencement addresses have figured prominently in American foreign policy. Whether it was FDR ending the pretense that the United States would remain rigidly neutral in World War II in a speech at t…

President John F. Kennedy delivers the commencement address at American University on June 10, 1963 (Cecil Stoughton. White House Photographs. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston).

December 16, 2011

You Might Have Missed: Drone Sales, Twitter Wars, and Admiral McRaven

U.S. military personnel lower their heads during the ceremony of the encasing of the U.S. Forces in Iraq colors on December 15, 2011 (Courtesy Reuters/Pool). - Adam Entous and Julian E. Barnes, “U.S…

U.S. military personnel lower their heads during the ceremony of the encasing of the U.S. Forces in Iraq colors in Baghdad on December 15, 2011 (Courtesy Reuters/Pool).

December 27, 2013

Military Operations
You Might Have Missed: Drones, U.S. Arms in Iraq, and Civil-Military Relations

        “Unmanned Systems Integrated Roadmap: FY2013-2038,” U.S. Department of Defense, 2013.  Inventory of DoD UAS (page 5) (3PA: Like other Pentagon reports, the data contained in this char…

Baghdad Attack

August 30, 2013

Military Operations
You Might Have Missed: Syria Intervention, WMDs, the "Black Budget”

Barton Gellman and Greg Miller, “U.S. spy network’s successes, failures and objectives detailed in ‘black budget’ summary,” Washington Post, August 29, 2013. The $52.6 billion “black budget” for fis…

chemical weapons inspector in Syria