
for recommending Our Man in Tokyo: An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor, a tick-tock of Ambassador Joseph C.

Here are some of the best ones that Jack and Robbie picked off the top of the stack. To get you through the dog days of summer, SitRep asked you, dear readers, for some of the best reads for the beach, the car, the airport, or wherever you may find yourself this summer. It’s that time of year again: Carly Rae Jepsen is blasting from your car radio, the crack of baseball bats can be heard in the air, Kim Jong Un is looking at things, and Washington is basically an unlivable, 98-degree, mosquito-ridden swamp. (For more summer book reads, check out this additional list from FP staff and contributors.)Īlright, here’s what’s on tap for the day: The ultimate summer reading guide for national security wonks, Russia-sized woes in the U.S.- South Africa relationship, Congress votes to future-proof NATO, and more. Special thanks to all our readers who wrote in with their recommendations, and apologies that we couldn’t include them all. We’ve compiled a great list of books for the national security wonks to add to their summer reading pile. Never mind.īut enough about escapist fantasy, let’s move on to other genres. Hope everyone is staying cool amid all these record-shattering heat waves, but not to worry, world leaders have banded together to come up with a bold strategy to tackle global carbon emissions to stave off the dangerous and deadly effects from climate chan-Oh wait. Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s SitRep! Robbie and Jack here, with a special summer SitRep edition for all our fellow bookworms out there.
