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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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- December 19, 2017
Trump's Security Strategy Is Sound, If He Believes It -- Bloomberg editorial
The Guardian view on Trump’s national security strategy: a veneer of credibility -- The Guardian editorial
Why Is the White House Ignoring Its National Security Strategy? -- Dave
Majumdar, National Interest
The global backlash against China is growing -- John Pomfret, Washington Post
Why Trump Treats Xi and China Differently -- Don Tse & Larry Ong, RCD
What are the real purposes of Pyongyang’s new satellites? -- Robert E. McCoy, Asia Times
Now that ISIS is mostly defeated, will U.S. stay in Iraq? -- Jim Michaels, USA Today
Chinese companies poised to help rebuild war-torn Syria -- Robert W Anderson, Asia Times
Cyril Ramaphosa: Who is the ANC's new leader? -- Al Jazeera
Kremlin Blocks Political Opposition Websites -- Vladimir Kara-Murza, World Affairs
Venezuela's a Disaster, Yet Socialism's Popularity Soars -- Jonah Goldberg, LA Times
Chile election ends era of female presidents in Latin America -- Caroline Stauffer & Mitra Taj, Reuters
Will Trump's plans trigger a tax war? -- Natalie Sherman, BBC
Now, a different clash of civilizations -- John Lloyd, Reuters
The U.S. Might Be Stumbling Into Two Different Wars at Once -- Joshua Keating, Slate
The global backlash against China is growing -- John Pomfret, Washington Post
Why Trump Treats Xi and China Differently -- Don Tse & Larry Ong, RCD
What are the real purposes of Pyongyang’s new satellites? -- Robert E. McCoy, Asia Times
Now that ISIS is mostly defeated, will U.S. stay in Iraq? -- Jim Michaels, USA Today
Chinese companies poised to help rebuild war-torn Syria -- Robert W Anderson, Asia Times
Cyril Ramaphosa: Who is the ANC's new leader? -- Al Jazeera
Kremlin Blocks Political Opposition Websites -- Vladimir Kara-Murza, World Affairs
Venezuela's a Disaster, Yet Socialism's Popularity Soars -- Jonah Goldberg, LA Times
Chile election ends era of female presidents in Latin America -- Caroline Stauffer & Mitra Taj, Reuters
Will Trump's plans trigger a tax war? -- Natalie Sherman, BBC
Now, a different clash of civilizations -- John Lloyd, Reuters
The U.S. Might Be Stumbling Into Two Different Wars at Once -- Joshua Keating, Slate
