Trump’s New National Security Strategy Goes Full ‘America First’

The long-anticipated plan aims to selectively impose the U.S. president’s worldview around the globe.

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The Trump administration released its long-anticipated new national security strategy late Thursday night, laying out a vision that attempts to reconcile U.S. global dominance with a U.S. retreat from many aspects of its decades-long global role.

The one through line in the strategy—which at various points both promotes and rails against interventionism—is advancing Washington’s ambitions.

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