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By Rod Lyon
September 17, 2019
The U.S. Needs to Choose Its Battles Carefully
U.S. Army photo by SGT Jordan Trent
We live in the eternal now—a condition which makes it difficult to recall even what happened last week. So readers will be forgiven for not recalling the fine detail of a document published by the U.S. Department of Defense 20 months ago. That document was the U.S. national defence strategy (NDS).
Alongside a set of companion documents—the national security strategy, the nuclear posture review and the missile defence review—the NDS outlined the strategic core of the Trump administration’s thinking about defence policy. The full document was classified, but an 11-page unclassified synopsis was made available for public distribution. In the months since, U.S. defence officials testifying before Congress (see, especially, here) have added colour and detail to the initial document.
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