Linked below is commentary on President Biden’s National Security Strategy (NSS), HERE, issued a week ago. It follows the administration’s Interim National Security Strategy document, HERE, issued in March 2021. — MCM
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Biden’s ‘schizophrenic’ National Security Strategy, by Marcus Stanley | Responsible Statecraft The Biden administration has finally released its long-awaited National Security Strategy, the first such document since 2017. It alternates — sometimes on an almost sentence-by-sentence basis — between ambitious promises to lead global cooperation in addressing transnational challenges, and depicting a world of near-intractable rivalries. The overall impression is . . . READ MORE . . .
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Grave New World, by Patrick Lawrence | Consortium News The themes that define this NSS are two. One . . . the need to cooperate multinationally to address issued that are transnational in character. The second . . . great-power antagonism, “strategic competition,” and America’s obligation to lead the world in an almost biblical confrontation of democracy and autocracy. This is . . . READ MORE . . .
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Biden’s new National Security Strategy: A lot of Trump, very little Obama, by David Adesnik | Foundation for Defense of Democracies / Foreign Policy The similarity of the diagnoses presented by the Trump and Biden administrations does not mean their prescriptions for U.S. policy are the same. Nonetheless, much like a medical diagnosis, a strategic one narrows the range of options . . . READ MORE . . .
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Assessing the 2022 National Security Stratgy. From the Brookings Institution. On October 12, 2022, U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration released the 2022 National Security Strategy (NSS). Brookings experts reflect on the document and what it reveals about the United States’ security trajectory. Click HERE for the views of 13 Brookings Fellows.
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Biden’s wrongheaded National Security Strategy. From National Review. President Biden’s official National Security Strategy, released this week, declares that we are in a “decisive decade” and that “the post-Cold War era is definitively over.” The document charts out a bold path for confronting “the existential challenge of our time.” That challenge is . . . READ MORE . . .