The Lippmann Column
The Trial Balloon. Walter Lippmann, a widely read columnist for the New York Herald-Tribune and an accepted expert on many subjects, wrote this column below […]
Foreign and Military Policy
Thirteen Days
JFK and Potential Disaster. On October 22, 1962, President John F. Kennedy announced an air and naval quarantine of Cuba. This came after the U.S. […]
National Security Council
The President’s Advisory Panel. The National Security Council is a congressionally-created group to advise the president on national security affairs. The National Security Act of […]
Authorization to Use Force
Waging War Without Declaring War. The Authorization to Use Military Force Act was passed shortly after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The Resolution […]
Pearl Harbor
A Day That lives in Infamy. On this day, Dec. 7th, in 1941, the Imperial Army of Japan attacked the Pearl Harbor U.S. naval base […]