There seems to be some confusion about the president’s foreign policy, so here is a guide that might prove useful. By the policy-maker in chief, himself, as told to this writer during a nightmare.

Soon after the Revolution ended, George Washington calculated that the Army had four jobs in peacetime. By Thomas E. Ricks , a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy. fp-placeholder-social ...

George Washington warned us: “A passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils,” he wrote in his farewell address to the nation in 1796. He emphatically advised ...

On the other hand, "America's favorable geography and vast resources facilitated a perception that foreign policy was an optional activity." Because U.S. principles are assumed to be universal ...

Two words: George Washington. By Alexis Coe Published: Feb 17, 2025 10:12 AM EST. ... in shaping economic policy. ... of heightened presidential authority in foreign affairs and national ...