Experts React: Trump Administration’s National Security Strategy
The strategy sidelines global health, climate, and development, risking U.S. influence as rivals China and Russia expand their reach, experts say.
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US National Retreat Strategy leaves Asia to manage consequences
The Donald Trump administration’s much-awaited National Security Strategy (NSS) landed last week with an audible thud. The somewhat truncated document is an odd combination of social media-style triumphalism and an effort to lay a strategic veneer on the administration’s often chaotic and contradictory policies. But the document clearly expresses an America-First view of the world, a combination […] The post US National Retreat Strategy leaves A…
New U.S. National Security Strategy Flies in Face of Global Development Realities
On December 5, the White House released the Trump administration’s vision for U.S. national security, firmly rooted in the “America First” doctrine. The strategy prioritizes national sovereignty, military strength, and economic nationalism, framing global affairs as a competitive, zero-sum environment dominated by great power rivalry with China and Russia. Economic security is treated as inseparable from national security, alliances are approach…
CHRONIC. The new US strategic doctrine is a fabric of counter-truths and a purely ideological vision that gives this document the weight of a simple political program, writes former diplomat François NordmannJohn Bolton, Trump's former adviser to the national security of the United States, he always said: this president has no sense of strategy and only acts according to his mood swings and intuition. The document published by the White House on…
Trump National Security Strategy Pivots from the Middle East
The opening paragraph of the Middle East section in the Trump administration’s National Security Strategy 2025 (NSS), released last week, asserts that Trump intends, as have his past few predecessors, to pivot the focus of U.S. policy from the Middle East to other national security threats. Laying out Trump’s case for de-emphasizing the region, the document states: “For half a century at least, American foreign policy has prioritized the Middle …
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