While Secretary of State Clinton touts her efforts to strengthen the civilian side of U.S. foreign policy, an experienced voice speaking out from the Baquba Provincial Reconstruction Team in Iraq still sees problems with recruitment, training and leadership. No need to choose between the two: both are on the right track, but civilians are still the short pole in the tent when it comes to expeditionary state-building.
Where is that long promised Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review? Will it be another four years?
a president who is dismantling the US government is doing the same to its alliances…
J. F. Carter, US Army (ret LTC) 1968-1992, United Nations (ret D-1) 1992-2009, and European…
Trump is unsympathetic to alliances in general, NATO in particular, and the EU most of…
Winning enough of those seats to gain a majority in one of the Houses will…
This really is a cabinet of horrors. The most unqualified people serving the least serious…
Yes, State needs cutting. But you have to start in the right place. Reinventing the…