U.S. Allies in Search of Plan B; An Anatomy of Failure in Vietnam; It’s Time to Finally Reform the EU—or Risk Irrelevance
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The Allies After America

In Search of Plan B

By Philip H. Gordon and Mara Karlin

 

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U.S. President Lyndon Johnson and U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara at a National Security Council meeting, Washington, D.C., February 1968

The Fog of McNamara

An Anatomy of Failure in Vietnam

By Fredrik Logevall

 
At the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, Germany, September 2024

Europe Is Missing Its Moment

It’s Time to Finally Reform—or Risk Irrelevance

By Douglas Rediker and Heidi Crebo-Rediker

 

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Syrian security forces secure an area following an ISIS bombing in Damascus, June 2025

The Return of ISIS

The Group Is Rebuilding in Syria—Just as U.S. Forces Prepare to Leave

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