The Vision Thing
George H. W. Bush saw how to preserve American strength at a perilous time.
Ike’s Triumphs
Paul Lettow reviews The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s, by William I. Hitchcock.
Mapping Tomorrow’s World
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 ...
High Stakes
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 ...
A Romney-Ryan Foreign Policy
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 ...
Parallel Lives
In February 1946, George Kennan despaired that the U.S. government, mystified by Soviet unwillingness to cooperate in its plans for shaping the post-war world, understood neither the nature of Stalin’s ...