Many in the Indian strategic community are despondent about the unanticipated downturn in India-US relations since Donald Trump’s return to the White House. The Trump Administration’s national security strategy could well add to the pessimism. But realists in Delhi should note the new possibilities arising out of Trump’s plans to radically restructure US engagement with the world.

The United States’s National Security Strategy, released last week, is a decisive break from the internationalist traditions that guided American policy after 1945 and shaped the post-Cold War era. It reflects the ideological impulses of the America First movement and offers a clear statement of how the Trump administration interprets America’s role in the world. Five departures from tradition stand out. One, th

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