National Security Strategy

When in doubt, Washington's foreign-policy strategy should be to rope-a-dope.

The United States could restore its global influence by adhering to its commitments.

The president's policies often deviate from his dangerous preferences. But these divergences present their own problems.

The chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee should use his last year in office to reverse the unprincipled silence and moral weakness of Republicans in Congress.

Last year, Trump corroded U.S. foreign policy, but avoided disaster. This year, there are powerful reasons to think that matters will worsen.

The historical analogy is wrong — whichever way you look at it.

There's a reason why other administrations didn’t plan national security policy this way.

Strategizing for this president isn’t easy. But that excuse only gets you so far.

Its survey of the world is mostly accurate, but the discussion of domestic policy falls flat.

The Trump administration claims — and fails — to provide a plan to keep Americans safe.

The administration notices growing competition with authoritarian countries, but skirts around the source of conflict.

“America First” is officially all grown up.

The Trump administration needs a robust plan to make sure America remains the world’s most powerful economy.

Now critics claim the national security advisor is hurting efforts to recruit senior White House intelligence advisors.

Why President Trump shouldn’t necessarily heed the long-term vision of his own National Security Strategy.

What we are trying to do, and why it's so hard to get there.

Six months into the president’s term and it’s already clear that small wins and tactical deals do not amount to a strategy of any sort.

Sometime this year, the Trump administration intends to release the legislatively mandated National Security Strategy (NSS). What will it contain about Russia?

An “America first” policy risks leaving America alone.

Trump’s Cabinet is always at the ready with brooms and mops to clean up the commander-in-chief’s errant outbursts. But does the administration have a real strategy?