American Military News by Ryan Morgan November 24, 2020
Mattis hopes Biden will drop Trump’s ‘America First’ from National Security Strategy – Trump responds
President Donald Trump’s former Secretary of Defense, Marine Gen. Jim Mattis, co-wrote an op-ed on Monday in which he expressed his hope that Joe Biden will remove Trump’s “America First†approach from the U.S. national security strategy.
Mattis co-wrote the opinion article for Foreign Affairs alongside Kori Schake, the Director of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute; Jim Ellis, a Hoover Institute fellow and former commander of U.S. Strategic Command; and Joe Felter, another Hoover Institute fellow. The four wrote, “The United States today is undermining the foundations of an international order manifestly advantageous to U.S. interests, reflecting a basic ignorance of the extent to which both robust alliances and international institutions provide vital strategic depth.â€
Mattis and the other authors added, “In practice, ‘America first’ has meant ‘America alone.’ That has damaged the country’s ability to address problems before they reach U.S. territory and has thus compounded the danger emergent threats pose.â€
The authors then looked ahead to a Biden administration, following the lead of several news outlets that have called the 2020 election for the Democratic candidate even as Trump has raised legal challenges over the results.
The authors wrote, “In January, when President Joe Biden and his national security team begin to reevaluate U.S. foreign policy, we hope they will quickly revise the national security strategy to eliminate ‘America first’ from its contents, restoring in its place the commitment to cooperative security that has served the United States so well for decades.â€
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