Tag: East Asia Pacific
Towards a New Strategic Imperative
From Fighting the Long War to Fighting to Win
by Bob Warburg, Andy Burton, Jose Ocasio-Santiago, Tom Stuhlreyer, John DeFoor, Blair McFarland, Anthony Stapleton
Strategic Communication Changes
It’s Time to Call Evildoers Evil by Sam Holliday In the current war of Islamic extremists against the West, communication superiority is a prerequisite for success, this essay argues, and the Islamists have seized the verbal high ground. However, the … Read more
China’s Filthiest Export
The authors point up and analyze a little-remarked byproduct of China’s remarkable industrial advances of recent times – industrial pollution. To set the burgeoning problem in perspective, China within two years evidently will surpass even the United States in the … Read more
Release of Foreign Relations, 1969-1976, Vol. XX, Southeast Asia, Announced
Release of Foreign Relations, 1969-1976, Vol. XX, Southeast Asia, Announced Office of the Historian Bureau of Public Affairs United States Department of State December 15, 2006 The Department of State released today Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969-1976, Volume … Read more
How I Became Interested in a Career in Diplomacy
It Was Willy Nilly
by Bobbie Bergesen Riedel
Manhattan to Vientiane
Another in our “First Post” series, Mr. Sheinbaum’s contribution reminds us of the early days of post-WWII life in a foreign service assignment. It was an exotic adventure, yet it was infused with a feeling of family. It would be hard not … Read more
One Man’s Foreign Service Career
by Paul D. McCusker WWII experience 1943-1946: Undergraduate B.A. degree cum laude 1943 from Holy Cross, Worcester, MA, ASTP test. Induction, East Texas in hot summer for three months, rail travel with other soldiers to Palo Alto, CA, Stanford University, … Read more