James Joyner, National Interest: How Trump's National Security Strategy Breaks with the Past
This version is starkly different, repeatedly sandwiching Trumpian policy in between platitudes about long-standing American values.
President Trump unveiled a new National Security Strategy on Monday. Previews of the document, based on leaked drafts and backchannel interviews, had given the impression that it would be a bland continuity of previous administrations’ strategies, with a few sops to Trumpism thrown in to satisfy the boss. A careful reading, however, shows it to be the reverse: a radical departure from the past within a penumbra of stability.
Obama’s February 2015 NSS was an idealist wish list, bordering on constructivism. Trump’s is petulance and solipsism masquerading as realism.
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1 comment:
A well written piece in NI. As was pointed out these papers aren't taken too seriously but it is another brick in the wall. Erratic, filled with veiled threats and conspiracies is par for the course in the Trump administration. I would imagine it would take a decade to get American influence and credibility back to at least where it was after Trump is out.
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