Greenland, Trump and National Security
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President Trump has released his national security strategy (NSS) with a focus on building up a larger military presence in the Western Hemisphere, balancing global ...
Rebecca Lissner, senior fellow for U.S. foreign policy at the Council, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the Trump administration’s new National Security Strategy and its consequences for U.S. foreign and defense policy. This is the eighth ...
December 19, 2025 - As 2025 draws to a close, national security discussions on the surface continue to center on geopolitical rivalry, technological competition, and the pace of innovation. These themes remain important, but as we enter 2026, a subtler ...
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On Sept. 2, when American military aircraft targeted a boat in the Caribbean and reportedly followed it with a strike to pulverize the shipwrecked survivors, it was a new assertion of U.S. imperial impunity. But it was also a confusing one, given the ...
Like the classic Clint Eastwood western, the Trump Administration should have titled its National Security Strategy: “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.” The good is the NSS’s recognition of the fundamental goal of U.S. national security policy: the ...
For decades, America’s chief adversaries, Russia and China, have been striving to upend the U.S.-led post-World War II international order. For just as long, the U.S. government has published national security documents that state the rationale and the ...
Mr. Caldwell is the author of “Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam and the West.” In Paris on Sunday, Le Monde led its coverage with an article on what it called the consummation of a divorce. Munich’s Süddeutsche Zeitung ran ...
The new National Security Strategy is out, and it’s a shock to the system. It is not just the latest public articulation of principles, ambitions, and priorities around which the United States organizes its foreign policy. Instead, it reads like a ...