Next Sunday marks the fiftieth anniversary of the arrival of the first American combat troops in Vietnam. It wasn’t a decision that President Lyndon Johnson had planned on making. True, the previous …

The United States has fought twelve major wars and a countless number of smaller skirmishes in its history. Memorial Day is our way of honoring the soldiers, sailors, airmen, airwomen, and marines wh…

Each Friday this summer, we suggest foreign-policy-themed movies worth watching. This week: films about prisoners of war.

Rachel Brown is a research associate for Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Xi Jinping certainly isn’t the only recent Chinese visitor to the United States whose travel is affecting U…