Foreign Policy/National Security

Memo reviewed by Lauren Brodsky, HKS Lecturer in Public Policy Sitting slightly reclined, with a steady stream of cigarette smoke visible to the viewer, esteemed journalist Edward R. Murrow faces a television screen with a view of a Boston apartment. It...

Memo reviewed by Michelle Barton, HKS MC/MPA This foreign policy memo (found in the New York Times article by Eric Schmitt, 11/7/19) is a clear and concise piece of writing in response to a mammoth decision in U.S. foreign policy. It was written to...

Memo reviewed by James J. McDonnell, National Security Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School Brzezinski, the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (currently called the National Security Advisor) under Jimmy Carter, wrote a memo to outline...

Memo reviewed by Andreas L. Hahn, 2020 Fletcher MALD Candidate ( Memorandum From the Deputy Secretary of State (Clark) and the Under Secretary of State for Management (Kennedy) to Secretary of State Haig[1], 26 October 1981) The memo on the...

I can’t tell you what’s going to happen to his blockbuster complaint about the president’s behavior, but I can tell you that the whistle-blower’s college writing instructor would be very proud of him. As a writing instructor myself for 20 years, I look at...