If you’ve been following the war in Afghanistan via the Internet or major print media, you might remember a notorious PowerPoint slide from the Pentagon that started circulating in April of 2010.
It had originally been presented during a staff meeting in Kabul the year before. The slide—essentially a flowchart—attempted to illustrate the complexity of US strategy in the region using arrows, boxes...
In late February, the US reached an agreement with the government of North Korea, promising 240,000 metric tons of food aid in exchange for a halt on all uranium enrichment and a moratorium on long-range missile tests.