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- U.S. Department of State [r]: Agency of the executive branch of the U.S. government responsible for foreign policy and the conduct of American diplomacy. [e]
Subtopics
- Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Director General of the Foreign Service [r]: Add brief definition or description
Ranks
- Career Ambassador [r]: Highest career rank for Foreign Service Officers; usually not more than 5 active in the rank; rough military equivalent of lieutenant general to general [e]
- Career Minister [r]: Second highest rank for a U.S. Foreign Service Officer; protocol equivalent between major general and lieutenant general [e]
- FSO-1 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- FSO-8 [r]: Add brief definition or description
Members of the service
- Adrian Basora [r]: Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and Director of the Project on Democratic Transitions, an in-depth assessment of the political, economic and social transitions of postcommunist Europe/Eurasia twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall; Career Foreign Service Officer who was former U.S. Ambassador in Prague, National Security Council Director for European Affairs 1989 to 1991, Deputy Chief of Mission and then Chargé d’Affaires in Madrid, Political Counselor in Paris; member, Council on Foreign Relations, a trustee of the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) [e]
- Ryan Crocker [r]: U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, 2007-2009, and a Foreign Service Officer with the highest rank of Career Ambassador [e]
- Elbridge Durbrow [r]: (1904-1997) United States Ambassador to the Republic of Vietnam (1957 - 1961), career diplomat and Foreign Service Officer. [e]
- Chas Freeman [r]: Withdrew nomination to head National Intelligence Council; expert panel, Iraq Study Group; retired Foreign Service Officer; Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs (1993-94); U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (1989-1992) [e]
- Charles Hill [r]: Career minister in the U.S. Foreign Service; research fellow at the Hoover Institution; diplomat-in-residence and lecturer in International Studies at Yale University; Executive aide to former U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz (1985–89); served as special consultant on policy to the Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1992 to 1996; wrote biography of Boutros Boutros-Ghali [e]
- Christopher Hill (U.S. diplomat) [r]: U.S. Ambassador to Iraq as of April 2009, following service as Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; he was chief US negotiator at the Six-Party Talks over North Korean nuclear weapons [e]
- John Negroponte [r]: A career U.S. diplomat now on the faculty of Yale University, whose tenure included Ambassadorships to Iraq, the United Nations, Honduras, and Mexico and serving as Director of National Intelligence [e]
- Frederick Nolting Jr. [r]: U.S. ambassador and head of the United States Mission to the Republic of Vietnam, from May 10 to August 15, 1963. A career Foreign Service Officer, he was preceded by Elbridge Durbrow, and succeeded by Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.. A supporter of Ngo Dinh Diem, he did not agree with the policy of U.S. support for a coup against Diem. [e]
- David Pearce [r]: US Foreign Service Officer, U.S. Ambassador to Algeria (2008-present); a senior advisor to U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker, and a planner of the "Surge" [e]
- Thomas Pickering [r]: Board of Directors, Henry L. Stimson Center; Executive Committee, Atlantic Council; Advisor, Partnership for a Secure America; Retired Foreign Service Officer who achieved the highest U.S. diplomatic rank, ambassador to many countries; still actively commenting and advising [e]
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- M. Terry Cooke [r]: Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Research Institute Asia Program and the principal director of GC3 Strategy, Inc., an international consultancy specializing in sustainability-related technologies and capital linkages between Asia and the U.S; was Director of Asian Partnership Development for the Geneva-based World Economic Forum. Prior Foreign Service Officer [e]
- Maxwell Taylor [r]: U.S. Army officer who commanded Airborne units in the Second World War, he rose to full general and Chief of Staff of the Army. Recalled from retirement by John F. Kennedy, he took on a number of politicomilitary roles including Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Ambassador to South Vietnam. [e]
- Meghan O'Sullivan [r]: Professor of International Affairs at the Harvard University Belfer Center; previously consultant to then-U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker, on the National Security Council, Coalition Provisional Authority, Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance, and the Policy Planning Staff of the U.S. Department of State [e]
- Secretary of State [r]: In Britain, the head of any of the more important government departments, or in the United States, the head of the State Department, which deals with foreign policy. [e]
- Thomas Ricks [r]: A military analyst and author, formerly a newspaper journalist, and now at the Center for a New American Security and Foreign Policy; wrote major books on Iraq War [e]
- Tran Van Don [r]: Vietnamese military officer who fought against the Viet Minh with the French, then became a general under Ngo Dinh Diem, but participated in the 1963 overthrow of Diem [e]
- U.S. Department of Homeland Security [r]: An executive (cabinet-level) department of the United States government whose primary mission is to protect the security of the nation. [e]
- U.S. Department of State [r]: Agency of the executive branch of the U.S. government responsible for foreign policy and the conduct of American diplomacy. [e]
- U.S. Mission to Iraq [r]: The U.S. Embassy and civilian agencies in Iraq, under the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq; Multi-National Force-Iraq is not under the Mission [e]
- Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs [r]: Third-ranking official of the U.S. Department of State, reserved for a career Foreign Service Officer; incumbent is William Burns [e]
- Victor Krulak [r]: Rising to lieutenant general before retiring from the United States Marine Corps as commander of Fleet Marine Force, Pacific (FMFPAC), he was a decorated battalion commander in the Second World War, and then rose in command and staff assignments, becoming the first Special Assistant for Counterinsurgency and Special Activities, and thus a key advisor in the early parts of the Vietnam War. His son, GEN Charles Krulak, became Commandant of the Marine Corps [e]
- Viet Cong [r]: The military wing of the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam (NLF); a generic term for Communist forces in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War [e]
- Viet Minh [r]: A short name for the Communist-dominated national revolutionary movement that overthrew the colonial government of French Indochina [e]
- Vietnam War [r]: A post-colonial independence/Cold War conflict between communist North Vietnam against South Vietnam, assisted by the United States (1955-1975), to unify Vietnam; won by North Vietnam in 1975. [e]
- Wars of Vietnam [r]: The broad context of warfare in the modern area of Vietnam, of which the Vietnam War (1962-1975) is best known, but involves colonization, Japanese occupation, decolonization, and post-1975 but related warfare among Vietnam, Cambodia and China [e]
- Washington Report on Middle East Affairs [r]: Produced by the American Education Trust (AET), created retired Foreign Service Officers, it endorses United Nations Security Council Resolution 242, the "land for peace" proposal to solve the Israel-Palestine conflict; it includes both Israeli and Palestinian views [e]
