For decades, the foreign policy elite in both parties insisted that America’s greatness has more to do with Damascus than ...

There seems to be some confusion about the president’s foreign policy, so here is a guide that might prove useful. By the policy-maker in chief, himself, as told to this writer during a nightmare.

Soon after the Revolution ended, George Washington calculated that the Army had four jobs in peacetime. By Thomas E. Ricks , a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy. fp-placeholder-social ...

As the United States prepares to celebrate its birth on July 4th -- the day in 1776 when the Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Second Continental Congress -- it is awash in foreign ...

George Washington warned us: “A passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils,” he wrote in his farewell address to the nation in 1796. He emphatically advised ...

On the other hand, "America's favorable geography and vast resources facilitated a perception that foreign policy was an optional activity." Because U.S. principles are assumed to be universal ...

How George Washington Wrote His Farewell Address ... “It is our true policy to steer clear of any permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world,” he wrote, ...