China strategy merges the hawkishness of John Bolton, the strategic positioning of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, the nationalism of White House trade Peter Navarro and Pence's values-based advocacy. In, President Barack Obama's White House Asia, Jeffrey Bader, now at Brookings..…

Yesterday at an event called One Day University, I saw a talk by William Burke-White of Penn and formerly of the Obama state department (I think he was one of many consultants, but I can never figure out seniority from people's biographies - his is here). . ... Burke-White is an..…

He was being cowed by the fear of being accused of responsibility for future consequences of defeat in war — fear that had led Lyndon Johnson to abandon his own strong resistance to full-scale US Vietnam in mid-1965 and Barack Obama to accept Afghanistan that he had argued against White..…