Johnson Administration
The Longest Wars
Richard Holbrooke helped normalize U.S. relations with China; served as U.S. ambassador to a newly reunified Germany and then to the United Nations; and, most famously, negotiated the 1995 Dayton peace agreement that ended the war in Bosnia. But he began and ended his career struggling with how to resolve two American wars: first in Vietnam, then in Afghanistan.
To Intervene or Not to Intervene
There is nothing new in the contemporary doctrine opposing intervention or in the pragmatic use of intervention on behalf of individual nations’ interests.