As we begin to celebrate our semi-quincentennial, America continues to face generational threats both at home and abroad. Externally, adversaries like China, Russia, and Iran threaten our sovereignty, interests, and freedoms, while internally bad actors on the left and the right disparage the American project and call for total retreat from the global stage. In response, The Vandenberg Coalition is pleased to announce our new series to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence: “The Beacon of Liberty: 250 Years of American Foreign Policy.” Through a series of videos featuring leading national security experts, we aim to highlight some key policies and speeches in the history of U.S. foreign affairs and convey that the United States must—as articulated by Senator Arthur Vandenberg—serve as “a welcome beacon in the world’s dark night” – and we must do so “primarily for our own sake.”