Trump’s national defense strategy is unlike anything that’s come before it

The Pentagon’s new National Defense Strategy is a major departure from decades of established defense policy, and may not be sustainable, according to experts who spoke to Defense One. While the strategy harkens back to what the Trump administration sees as a better time— immediately after World War II, “secure in our hemisphere, with a military that was focused on warfighting and far superior to anyone else’s”—experts don’t believe this worldview i