On July 25, 1969, the Nixon Doctrine was announced, and along with it, the expectation for America’s Asian allies to become responsible for their own military defense. During his campaign, Nixon ...

It’s an unwritten rule: each president gets one foreign policy doctrine. James Monroe’s was defense of the Americas. Harry S Truman’s was containment. And George W. Bush’s–spelled out after the defeat ...

In THE TIME OF ILLUSION (which Knopf will publish early in January — it first appeared as a six-part article in the New Yorker, last summer) Schell, the author of two books on the Vietnam war, has ...

U.S. President Richard Nixon and Japanese Prime Minister Sato Eisaku in San Clemente, California, January 5, 1972. Credit: Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum Subscribe for ads-free reading ...