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In May 2013, when I became commander of US European Command and NATO’s supreme allied commander for Europe, I found US and NATO forces well suited for their requirements at the time but ill prepared for the challenges that lay ahead. The United States’ military presence in Europe, which had shrunk significantly since the 1990s, was not oriented toward a specific threat. NATO, for its part, was mostly involved in operations out-side the continent, primarily in Afghanistan.

The Department of Veterans Affairs is struggling to keep its promises to veterans after they come home. The United States needs to rewrite the contract it strikes with its service members.

More than 13 years after 9/11, the Afghan war is far from over, even if Washington insists that the U.S. role in it will soon come to an end. Three recent books help explain why, and what Washington needs to do next to protect the gains that have been made.

In October 2013, the U.S. Department of State eliminated its funding program for advanced language and cultural training on Russia and the former Soviet Union.

This week, Ethiopia is commemorating its national day with an exhibition celebrating the country’s economic progress. More than 140 companies - some state-owned, some private - have set up displays in Millennium Hall, a conference center in Addis Ababa’s upscale Bole neighborhood.

Yemen’s civil war is not, despite popular belief, part of a broader Saudi-Iranian conflict, but rather the result of deep historical tensions within Yemen itself. Yet the United States and Saudi Arabia can still do much to improve the humanitarian situation.

The September/October 2015 issue of Foreign Affairs.

Marcelo Claure, founder of BrightStar and CEO of Sprint, talks to Foreign Affairs about how to run a corporation like an entrepreneur and bringing soccer to the United States.

The latest idea de jour on how the next US administration should deal with Iran, trumpeted especially by the Hillary Clinton camp, is the need to be tougher and more aggressive in confronting Tehran. Only a stiff spine in standing up to the mullahcracy, as the argument goes, will block its expansionist desires and prevent a rising Iran from dominating the region.

Behind France’s revulsion at Trump lies a diplomatic opportunity. As the United States looks inward, Macron is working to reinvigorate the European project as a way of restoring French leadership.

In the first days of the “war on terror,” before the United States had launched air strikes against the Taliban or Special Forces raids on Osama bin Laden’s compounds, President George W. Bush signed Executive Order 13224. The presidential decree, which dates from September 23, 2001, targeted al Qaeda’s money by “prohibiting transactions” with suspected terrorists. “Money is the lifeblood of terrorist operations,” Bush said at the time. “We’re asking the world to stop payment.”

The roots of France’s problem with terrorism lie in a complex mixture of religion, social pressures, and alienation. But the solutions need not be convoluted. Better policing, coordination, and community outreach can all make the jihadist threat less lethal.

Helen Greiner, co-founder of iRobot and founder of CyPhy Works, talks to Foreign Affairs about robots, Star Wars, and how to bring futuristic technology to market.

Just before 11 PM on Thursday, July 14, a 19-ton truck turned onto a seaside promenade in Nice, France, where crowds had gathered to watch Bastille Day fireworks. The truck sped up, plowing into the people on the promenade. By the time French police shot the driver, the truck had traveled 1.1 miles, killing 84 people and injuring hundreds more.

The past few weeks have seen a wave of Muslims from all around the world joining the ranks of ISIS. Although most of the attention has been on those coming from the United States and Europe, the bulk of foreign fighters has actually come from places like Turkey, from which the flow of jihadists is particularly puzzling.

In many Muslim countries, mainstream Islamist parties are taking an increasingly secular approach to politics. Yet by doing so they risk destroying the religious elements of society that created them.

Indian interests are fundamentally at odds with those of the United States, writes Boggs, and diplomacy will make little difference. Burns replies.

China is part of the solution when it comes to North Korea, but, through its continued material support of the Kim regime, it is also part of the problem.

Western pundits and nostalgic Muslim thinkers alike have built up a narrative of the caliphate as an enduring institution, central to Islam and Islamic thought between the seventh and 20th centuries. In fact, the caliphate is a political or religious idea whose relevance has waxed and waned according to circumstance.

Thousands of years ago, agriculture began as a highly site-specific activity. But as farmers acquired scientific knowledge and mechanical expertise, they enlarged their plots.