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War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence

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by Ronan Farrow


  Operations Center of, 262

  and Pakistani EJKs, 9–10

  and Pakistani reporters’ killings, 70–71

  Raphel and, 145–46

  State Department, US (continued)

  spending by, 292

  Syrian policy and, 161–62

  under Tillerson, 257–77

  Tillerson’s survey of, 269–71

  Trump administration and, xxxi

  Trump administration’s firings from, xv–xx

  Trump administration’s war on, xx–xxi

  Trump funding cuts for, 271–73

  unfilled posts at, 274–75, 277–78

  vacancies at, xxxii

  Wise Men era of, 5–6

  in World War II, 4–5

  Steiner, Michael, 99–101, 102

  Steinmeier, Frank-Walter, 297

  Stevenson, Adlai, 246

  Stinger missiles, 171

  Strauss, Johann, 296

  Sudan, 46, 140, 209, 212, 293, 294

  Suez Canal, 229

  Sullivan, Jake, 93, 94, 110, 120

  Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), 230

  Supreme Court, Pakistan, 141–42

  Supreme Court, US, xxv

  Swat valley, 74

  Switzerland, 93

  Syria, 156, 158–60, 163, 264, 281, 302, 303

  US strikes on, 262

  Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), 159–60

  Tahrir Square, Cairo, 225, 229

  Taiwan, 291

  Takhar province, 200

  Takht-Ravanchi, Majid, 300

  Talbott, Strobe, 13, 15, 30, 38

  Taliban, 8, 28, 29–30, 41–43, 44–45, 65, 66, 67, 79, 99–101, 102, 114, 115, 117, 133, 135, 151, 155, 166, 172–73, 176, 179, 184, 185, 192, 194, 199, 202

  approach to Karzai by, 176

  Dasht-i-Leili massacre of, 164–202

  prisoners held by US, 101

  reintegration of low-level, 102–4, 105

  resurgence of, 201

  talks with, 173–74

  UN blacklist of, 106

  UN sanctions on, 173

  US negotiations with, 99–110

  US policy toward, 175–76

  US talks with, 120

  Tanzania, 208

  American embassy bombed in, 210

  Tashkent, Uzbekistan, 173–74

  Team 595, 180

  Tehran, 21

  terrorism, 34, 35, 42, 163, 209, 219–20, 242, 244, 247–48, 302

  Tillerson, Renda, 259

  Tillerson, Rex Wayne, xix–xx, 257–60, 262–63, 269, 283

  author’s meeting with, 257–59, 265

  background of, 259

  China policy and, 290–94

  formal guidelines for memos under, 263

  Haley and, 263–64

  inaccessibility of, 261–62

  Iran deal and, 279–81

  Kushner and, 266–67

  on North Korea, 285–86

  potential firing rumors about, 263–64, 265–66

  press relations of, 260–61

  on SRAP, 155

  State funding refused by, 272–73

  Trump and, 264–65

  Time (magazine), 38, 40

  Times Square, New York, N.Y., 76

  To End a War (Holbrooke), 85, 308–9

  Tokyo, donor’s conference in, 88

  Torres, Freddy, 237–40

  torture, 186

  Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), 293

  Treasury Department, US, 55, 299

  Treaty of Alliance, 3

  Truman, Harry, 5, 284

  Truman Doctrine, 5

  Trump, Donald, xiv, xxvi, xxix, 148, 155, 159, 202, 245, 253, 259, 267, 269, 274–75, 289, 296

  on Afghanistan, 201

  authoritarian strongmen praised by, 157–58

  Cuba policy of, 282–83

  Iran deal and, 279–81, 296

  militarization of diplomacy under, 156–57, 163

  North Korea and, 284–90

  off-the-cuff remarks of, 283–84

  Paris Agreement and, 281–82

  Russian contacts of, 142

  Sisi admired by, 236

  Tillerson and, 264–65

  Trump administration, xvii, xxi, xxii, 258, 276, 277, 292–93, 295, 308

  Afghanistan review of, 201

  ambassadors fired by, xv, xvi–xvii

  first budget of, 271

  Iran deal and, 302, 305–6

  militarization of, 156–57

  State Department and, xxxi

  Syria policy of, 160–61

  transition team of, xiv–xv, xx

  waging war on State Department, xx–xxi

  Tud-jman, Franjo, 39

  Tunisia, 30, 227, 229

  Turkey, 93, 158, 159–60, 161

  Turkmenistan, 293

  12 Strong (film), 197

  Twitter, 283, 285, 289

  Tyson, David, 177, 179

  U-2 spy planes, 16

  Uganda, 207, 212, 219

  Ukraine, 298

  UNHCR, 241

  UNICEF, 46

  Unión Patriótica, 249

  United Arab Emirates, 234

  United Nations, 29, 46, 53, 176, 187, 209, 210, 212, 219, 285, 301

  agency for Palestinian refugees in, 264, 266

  China and, 292

  peacekeeping missions of, 271

  terrorist blacklist of, 135

  United States, international affairs budget of, xxii–xxiii

  United States Agency for International Development (USAID), xxii, xxv, 21, 55, 57, 78–79, 80, 91–92, 93, 94, 124, 246, 269, 270, 271

  funding for, 79

  United States Information Agency, xxii–xxiii

  United States Institute of Peace, 150, 271

  United States Military Academy, 162

  US-Egypt relationship, 228–29

  US-Pakistan relationship, 22, 23–26, 28–29, 34, 41–42, 43–44, 70–71, 87–88, 96, 134, 143, 146

  and Bin Laden killing, 131–32

  blocking of visas in, 76–77

  Davis scandal in, 129–30

  lack of sincerity in, 75

  lies in, 70–73

  miscommunication in joint operations, 74–75

  presidential visits and, 114–15

  transactional nature of, 91

  UNRWA, 264, 266

  UN Security Council, 173

  US Army Special Warfare Center, 245

  US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), 295

  Uzbek language, 168

  V-22 Osprey, 104

  Vance, Cyrus, 52

  Venezuela, 283–84

  Verveer, Melanne, 10

  Vienna, 296–97, 301

  Vienna Convention, 128

  Vietnam, 64, 79, 245

  Vietnam War, 5, 6, 13, 15, 17–20, 24, 50, 60, 63, 115, 116, 246

  Vogue, xxviii

  VX nerve gas, 26

  Wall Street Journal, 46, 151

  Walt, Lewis, 17–18

  war crimes, 185, 271

  War Department, US, 56

  warlords, 113, 163, 165, 166, 167–68, 173, 178–79, 182–84, 200, 208, 216

  Somali, 204, 209–12, 215

  Washington Naval Conference, 4

  Washington Post, xxviii, 93, 109, 139, 142, 261, 282, 298

  Wassom, Herbert M., 25

  water policy, 96–98

  Wayne, John, 258–59

  Waziristan, 76

  Webster, William H., 27

  Werunga, Simiyu, 216

  Western Europe, 5

  Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, 242

  Westgate shopping mall, Nairobi, 206–7

  Westmoreland, General, 18

  West Point, 60

  Whelan, Theresa, 214

  White, Maureen, 124

  White, Robert, 245

  White Beast, see Hakim, Abdul

  White Eyes, see Siad, Yusuf Mohammed

  Whitson, Sarah Leah, 233–34

/>   WikiLeaks, 130

  Wilson, Charlie, 170, 171–72

  Winfield, Ala., 192

  “Wise Men,” 5–6

  Wisner, Frank, 117–18, 230

  women, 22, 28, 117, 188–89

  women’s rights, 231

  Wooburn Green, 204–5

  Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, 60

  Woodruff, Judy, 123

  Woodward, Bob, 63, 66, 113, 130

  World Bank, xx, 4–5, 97

  World Children’s Choir, 122

  World War II, 4–5

  Worthington, Sam, 93

  Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, 39–40

  Xi Jinping, 290–91

  Yarborough, William, 245

  Yemen, 156

  youth unrest, 227

  Yugoslavia, xxii, 39

  Zardari, Asif Ali, 36, 73, 137–38, 140, 141

  possible coup against, 138

  Zarif, Javad, 297–98, 300

  Zayed al Nahyan, Sheikh Mohammed bin, 217

  Zia-ul-Haq, Mohammed, 23, 24, 25–26, 33

  Zionists, 231

  Zorick, Michael, 212

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