They say generals are always fighting the last war. A lot of civilians are attempting to do the same thing -- or worse -- with their calls for a Marshall Plan for Iraq. The Marshall Plan, widely ...

During today’s discussions about tariffs, free trade, and the limits of internationalism, much of the debate focuses on national power and self-interest. It’s worth remembering the Marshall Plan — ...

More than 60 years ago, on June 5, 1947, U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall announced the European Recovery Program (later known as the Marshall Plan) in a famous commencement address at Harvard ...

At the end of World War II, the United States implemented the Marshall Plan, the biggest economic recovery act the world had ever seen and which was designed to get a war torn Europe back on its feet.

And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: June 5th, 1947, 69 years ago today ... the day the United States offered help to Europe as it struggled to recover from World War II. For that was the ...