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U.S. government institutions tasked with strategic communicationshave lacked the leadership and resources necessary to do their joband have operated with virtually no interagency coordination.Congress and the President should create an institutional frameworkand strategy that includes a new U.S. Agency for StrategicCommunications, substantial reforms of the Department of State, andgreater utilization of the Pentagon's combatant commands.

The upcoming ‘Wagyu Olympics’ in Kagoshima Prefecture is expected to create much-needed buzz about the industry among consumers at home and abroad.

Jeremy Goldkorn:Chairman Mao Zedong said that power comes out of the barrel of a gun, and he knew a thing or two about power, both hard and soft. If you have enough guns, you have respect. Money is the same: if you have enough cash, you can buy guns, and respect.Israel and Saudi Arabia are examples of the limits of such respect.

Vice President Joe Biden's outline of the Obama Administration's foreign policy vision should be viewed as one of the weakest projections of U.S. leadership in recent memory.

"Next to Obama Beach, we join President Obama in paying particular tribute to the spectacular bravery of American soldiers who gave their lives." Most assume it was a Freudian slip or a teleprompter malfunction (something from which Mr. Obama himself has been known to suffer). But maybe there's more to think about here.