Paul Lettow, the author of Ronald Reagan and His Quest to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, served as the senior director for strategic planning on the National Security Council staff from 2007 to 2009.
Mathew Burrows arrived at the CIA in the mid 1980s with a Ph.D. in history. He retired last year as the principal U.S. intelligence analyst of long-term trends. In this ...
In October 1986, President Ronald Reagan and Soviet general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev met in Iceland for what were supposed to be brief working discussions to prepare for a summit later ...
Presidents who are successful in foreign policy get the big picture right. And they typically have it right before taking office — although journalists and academics often recognize that only ...