updated Mon. February 12, 2024
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Foreign Policy (blog)
April 21, 2018
Virtually every U.S. military action since President Harry Truman went to war in Korea has been undertaken without explicit congressional assent. President Ronald Reagan sent Marines to Lebanon in 1982, invaded Grenada in 1983, and bombed Libya in 1986 without a vote of support from Congress.
The Hill
April 19, 2018
Former President Carter has urged the United States not to use military force in pursuing America's foreign-policy, especially with respect to the use of ... President Reagan, for example, used his military buildup sparingly, but because he spoke strongly and clearly about U.S. interests, our adversaries tookÃâà...
Foreign Policy (blog)
April 11, 2018
The U.S. Senate's consideration of CIA Director Mike Pompeo for confirmation as secretary of state is a critical inflection point for U.S. foreign policy. ... of state to undo the damage that the Trump administration's travel ban and slashing of refugee admissions have done to Reagan's vision of the UnitedÃâà...
Foreign Policy (blog)
April 10, 2018
One of the most overused cliches in contemporary U.S. diplomacy is Ronald Reagan's invocation of a Russian proverb: “Trust but Verify. .... How long before other important states decide they cannot base their foreign-policy decisions on expectations or assurances from the United States becauseÃâà...
Foreign Policy (blog)
April 9, 2018
Robert “Bud'' McFarlane occasionally served as President Ronald Reagan's transmitter to Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger of presidential ... what had previously been White House-level decisions down the chain of command and seems to have no formal foreign-policy-making process whatsoever.
Business Insider
April 1, 2018
Lindsey Graham gave President Donald Trump some harsh pointers on his foreign policy approach on Sunday and offered a veiled attack on Trump's ... Former President Ronald Reagan has been hailed for setting the groundwork for the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the eventual end of the Cold War.
CNN
March 26, 2018
He's under 40% approval on several important issues, including how he's handled foreign policy and gun policy. But he's at 48% approval on the ... Another historical note is that before they went on to re-election, Obama and Reagan suffered huge losses in midterm elections. Obama's Democrats lost 63Ãâà...
Foreign Policy (blog)
March 23, 2018
During President Ronald Reagan's administration, Redfield guided the military's public health response to HIV infections within the armed forces and also its pursuit of a vaccine against the virus. In both tasks, Redfield proved extremely controversial. Among the Defense Department policies that RedfieldÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
March 2, 2018
The decline of the GOP — now barely a quarter of the state's electorate — has been a precipitous one in this formerly deep-red redoubt, a decline all the more striking given the provenance of figures like Earl Warren, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. Between them, they represented California on the national ticket in 8Ãâà...
Washington Examiner
February 28, 2018
At this stage of his presidency, Reagan had completed 49 percent of the Heritage policy recommendations. ... What's more, he said, Trump hasn't just focused on one agenda area, but he and his team has pushed through administrative moves on foreign policy, deregulation, immigration, tax reform andÃâà...
The Japan Times
February 27, 2018
Elliott Abrams, who worked for Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, has argued that Trump has adopted a “fairly familiar Republican approach to foreign policy.” Matthew Kroenig, who advised the Mitt Romney and Marco Rubio presidential campaigns, contends that the administration has “theÃâà...
The Atlantic
February 27, 2018
As Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election heats up with guilty pleas and plea bargains, there is growing speculation about where this will all end. It might be time to start thinking more about Ronald Reagan than Richard Nixon, and that should giveÃâà...
Foreign Policy (blog)
February 20, 2018
And let's not forget one of former President Ronald Reagan's national security advisors, William Clark, who never completed college at all. The point is not that these people were necessarily incompetent; it is that they all acquired extraordinary foreign-policy responsibilities despite a lack of seriousÃâà...
Foreign Policy (blog)
February 15, 2018
The United States is back to defense spending, in constant dollars, that is higher than the peak spending levels under Ronald Reagan. Only in 2010, at the height of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, was defense spending higher. It's worth thinking about why defense spending is about to explode. It's notÃâà...
RealClearPolitics
February 6, 2018
At the end of his address, Reagan turned toward national issues – in particular, foreign policy -- and homed in on Vietnam. During the time period from July 1965 through his election and inauguration, and well afterwards, Reagan had been mentored privately on politics and world affairs by former PresidentÃâà...
Foreign Policy (blog)
February 1, 2018
He didn't have any fear of the limelight — Reagan's team actually asked if he planned to run for president — and took the job with promises that we would be the dominant force in foreign policy, a self-anointed “vicar.” Haig's tenure was marked by internal squabbling and overreaching, culminating in hisÃâà...
