By Suzanne MaloneyOn December 18, 2017, the Trump administration released its first National Security Strategy (NSS). The NSS is a congressionally-mandated document (dating to the 1986 Goldwater-Nichols Act) that outlines an administration’s appraisal of U.S. national security interests, the global security environment, challenges to U.S. interests, and policies and tools for securing such interests.
The Trump administration’s first NSS has been anticipated with special interest in light of President Trump’s questioning—expressed both during the course of the 2016 U.S. presidential election and also while in office—of many principles and policies previously embraced for several decades by elected leaders and foreign policy …read more
Source: Brookings
