State Beacon Mike Watson

Neither the Best Nor the Brightest

REVIEW: ‘The Internationalists: The Fight to Restore American Foreign Policy After Trump’ by Alexander Ward

Good Riddance, John Kerry

The Decline of American Foreign Policy

Why George Washington Is Still the GOAT

The Middle Kingdom’s Media Blitz

REVIEW: ‘Beijing’s Global Media Offensive’ by Joshua Kurlantzick

Will a Desperate China Take Desperate Measures?

REVIEW: 'Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China' by Hal Brands and Michael Beckley

Fooling Ourselves in the Far East

REVIEW: ‘Getting China Wrong’ by Aaron L. Friedberg

How We Achieved Naval Supremacy—And How We Could Lose It

REVIEW: Paul Kennedy’s ‘Victory at Sea’

Lessons from the Last Cold War

Review: 'The Twilight Struggle'

REVIEW: 'The Last Emperor of Mexico'

What John Quincy Adams Meant When He Said America 'Goes Not Abroad in Search of Monsters to Destroy'

And how the isolationists get it wrong