Introduction: culture, gender, and foreign policy reason -- The foreign policy "establishment" -- The reproduction of imperial manhood -- Heroism, bodies, and the construction of elite masculinity -- "Lavender lads" and the foreign policy establishment -- The sexual inquisition and the imperial brotherhood -- Lavender-baiting and the persistence of the sexual inquisition -- John F. Kennedy and the domestic politics of foreign policy -- Manhood, the imperial brotherhood, and the Vietnam war -- Afterword.