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With India China having fought a war just three years ago in 1962, the US was concerned that with growing cosiness of Pakistan with China, the latter may spring to Pakistan’s aid by threatening India.

The sanctions harm the Iranian economy, causing enormous suffering. But that has been the U.S. goal for over 40 years.

Comment: US-Israeli relations during the Kennedy administration were practically expunged from the official record following his assassination in November 1963. Given what was being quietly fought over - Israel's acquisition of nukes, and...

The military assistance effort in Afghanistan may be over, but efforts to build the capacity of local security partners remain a pillar of U.S. defense strategy.

After two decades, the United States is finally leaving Afghanistan, and only 2,500 U.S. troops remain in Iraq. In both countries, the insurgencies continue. It wasn’t supposed to end this way. In both wars, Washington hoped that imposing democratic reforms could protect the population, win hearts and minds, and defeat the insurgency. That, after all, was the narrative spelled out in the vaunted U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual, published in 2006, which was intended to g...