Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is executive director of the Aspen Security Forum, a bipartisan foreign policy conference In the run ...

The United States has a lot more to fear from a “suitcase” nuclear bomb planted by terrorists in Los Angeles, New York or Chicago than it does from Iraq or North Korea lobbing ballistic missiles at it ...

Re your Dec. 9 editorial “Rethink modern Maginot Line”:1. A treaty is a contract between no less than two nations. You may vow to do some deed but that is not a contract. 2. When one of the parties ...

The Maginot line brings together two totemic forms. The first, that of the wall, is headed by the Great Wall of China and has distinguished entries from Antiquity, notably Hadrian’s Wall, but also ...

UNSPECIFIED - CIRCA 1940: Sketch of the Maginot Line, England, Around 1940 (Photo by Imagno/Getty Images) [Entwurfszeichnung f?r die Einrichtungen der Maginot-Linie, England, Um 1940] ‘Whatever form a ...

Tom Craver posits in a comment that the current financial troubles of the United States are from spending too much money on the military and for War in Iraq ...

To The Editor: The southern fence as planned looks like a boondoggle, a modern Maginot Line. To control illegal border crossings, a physical fence may be appropriate in populated areas while ...

World War I decimated generations of people in countless countries. France was especially ravaged, with over 8,000 square miles of its territory occupied by the Germans during the war and, more ...