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The National Security Strategy and the new year
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The Trump administration published its National Security Strategy (NSS), a document meant to guide its foreign-policy vision. Thomas Wright that the document itself is coherent, but that its success depends on the bureaucracy’s ability to constrain the president to its vision. That’s because, according to Peter Beinart, the president doesn’t seem to in his own NSS. And Eliot Cohen argued that how one views the document on how one decides to look

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