Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. One for all and all for one. That simple principle underlies all alliances. But ...

World War II did not end on May 10, 1940. There were to be five more years of death and destruction and many Allied defeats before the Axis powers would be destroyed. But on that lovely spring day ...

The United Kingdom has long had a reputation for producing inspirational orators gifted with the ability to deliver rousing motivational speeches; Winston Churchill, to pick one example. Continuing ...