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The guided-missile destroyer USS Porter conducts strike operations from the Mediterranean Sea. (Ford Williams/Agence France-Presse via Getty Images)

Trump Gets a Taste of Success

by David Ignatius | Apr 16, 2017 | Opinion

For a reminder of how new administrations can quickly get into trouble in foreign policy, consider that Monday, April 17, marks the anniversary of the catastrophic Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy. Bad things can happen to good presidents, and...

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U.S. President Donald Trump welcomes Chinese President Xi Jinping at Mar-a-Lago state in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.

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Trump Got Syria and China Right Last Week. That’s a Start.

by David Ignatius | Apr 15, 2017 | Opinion

The Trump administration’s foreign policy has been a dizzying spectacle of mixed messages and policy reversals during its first three months. But in last week’s crucial tests, President Trump made good decisions about Syria, Russia and China — moving his erratic...

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Expedition 50 Flight Engineer Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency photographed the Rocky Mountains. (Thomas Pesquet/Agence France-Presse via Getty Images)

War in Space Is Becoming a Real Threat

by David Ignatius | Mar 20, 2017 | Opinion

Among the memorabilia in Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein’s office is a fragment of the Wright brothers’ first airplane. But the most intriguing items may be two small plastic satellites on sticks that can be maneuvered to simulate a dogfight in space....

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President Trump speaks during a meeting with manufacturing executives at the White House. (Olivier Douliery/Bloomberg)

Trump is Selling Snake Oil to the Rust Belt

by David Ignatius | Mar 8, 2017 | Opinion

President Trump boasts that his “America First” trade and economic policies are bringing well-paid manufacturing jobs back to America. That’s probably his biggest “deliverable” to Trump voters. But is this claim true? Trump won the presidency partly because he voiced...

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White House National Security Advisor Michael Flynn (C) arrives prior to a joint news conference between Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, U.S., February 13, 2017. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

Michael Flynn’s Star Burns Out

by David Ignatius | Feb 20, 2017 | Opinion

A strange and circuitous path led retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn toward his fateful telephone contact in late December with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak and the flameout of what had been a distinguished military career. Military and intelligence colleagues who...