Trump to unveil 'America First' national security strategy

[Right_in_Virginia]

Trump to unveil 'America First' national security strategy
Fox News, Dec 18, 2017, JONATHAN LEMIRE and HOPE YEN  | Associated Press

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The Republican president will detail his plans Monday. They could sharply alter the United States' relationships with the rest of the world.

The plan is to focus on four main themes: protecting the homeland and way of life, promoting American prosperity, demonstrating peace through strength and advancing American influence in an ever-competitive world.

Trump's doctrine holds that nation states are in perpetual competition and that the U.S. must fight on all fronts to protect and defend its sovereignty from friend and foe alike.


More: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/12/18/trump-to-unveil-america-first-national-security-strategy.html

[Right_in_Virginia]

Newt Gingrich: Trump's national security in tradition of Truman, Reagan and reality, not elite fantasies
Fox News, Dec 18, 2017

President Trump's speech Monday on national security will be in the great tradition of Presidents Truman and Reagan.

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Four presidencies – Bush, Clinton, Bush, and Obama – built their strategic efforts around a system of global multilateralism defined by lawyers, diplomats, and elite media. The gap between their idealistic vision and reality has been staggering. Disasters in Venezuela, Libya, Crimea, Syria, and elsewhere have demonstrated the collapse of the "New World Order" fantasy.

The Trump campaign focused on these foreign policy failures as a major component of its appeal to millions of Americans. Candidate Trump’s critique was sincere, and President Trump has now moved to replace the failed doctrine of the past.

President Trump's national security speech today should be read by every American who is concerned about national safety (which is the goal of national security).


More: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/12/18/newt-gingrich-trumps-national-security-in-tradition-truman-reagan-and-reality-not-elite-fantasies.html

[Right_in_Virginia]

Trump will stress trade and borders, ignore climate change, in new national security strategy
Washington Examiner, Dec 18, 2017, Steven Nelson

President Trump will call for greater border security and better trade deals in a national security strategy document released Monday.  A senior administration official said the strategy outlined in an afternoon Trump speech reflects "principled realism" in addressing global threats.

The strategy document, which administrations must send to Congress, drops President Obama's description of climate change as a national security threat. The National Defense Authorization Act, passed by Congress and signed into law by Trump last week, called climate change a "direct threat" and requires the Pentagon to come up with a list of the top 10 most at-risk bases.

The document does not offer individual country assessments, even in volatile regions such as the Middle East, but describes challenges to the U.S. from "revisionist" nations, "rogue" regimes, and transnational groups.  The strategy has four organizing principles: defense of the territorial U.S., promoting economic prosperity, ensuring peace through strength, and increasing U.S. influence.


More: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trump-will-stress-trade-and-borders-ignore-climate-change-in-new-national-security-strategy/article/2643789

[libertybele]

Trump will stress trade and borders, ignore climate change, in new national security strategy
Washington Examiner, Dec 18, 2017, Steven Nelson

President Trump will call for greater border security and better trade deals in a national security strategy document released Monday.  A senior administration official said the strategy outlined in an afternoon Trump speech reflects "principled realism" in addressing global threats.

The strategy document, which administrations must send to Congress, drops President Obama's description of climate change as a national security threat. The National Defense Authorization Act, passed by Congress and signed into law by Trump last week, called climate change a "direct threat" and requires the Pentagon to come up with a list of the top 10 most at-risk bases.

The document does not offer individual country assessments, even in volatile regions such as the Middle East, but describes challenges to the U.S. from "revisionist" nations, "rogue" regimes, and transnational groups.  The strategy has four organizing principles: defense of the territorial U.S., promoting economic prosperity, ensuring peace through strength, and increasing U.S. influence.


More: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trump-will-stress-trade-and-borders-ignore-climate-change-in-new-national-security-strategy/article/2643789

Now all he has to do is get the wall built.

[driftdiver]

Now all he has to do is get the wall built.

Which would be a lot easier if people weren't fighting him every step of the way.

[mystery-ak]

Trump releases 'America First' national security strategy
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/365449-trump-releases-america-first-national-security-strategy