Kori Schake is a senior fellow and the director of foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute. Her book, The State and the Soldier: A History of Civil-Military Relations in the United States, comes out Oct. 16.
Activists display a photo of US President Barack Obama (L) and pictures of former US spy Edward Snowden (C) and whistleblower Bradley Manning (R) during a protest action on June 19, 2013 in Berlin on behalf of the visit of the US President in the German capital. Barack Obama will walk in John F. Kennedy's footsteps this week on his first visit to Berlin as US president, but encounter a more powerful and sceptical Germany in talks on trade and secret surveillance practices.. AFP PHOTO / RONNY HARTMANN
