miketx
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Sounds like some things that should have been done a along time ago, but better late than never. Let the hand wringing and crying begin!
RUSH-uh.
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The White House broke down this national security overview into four core national security pillars: protecting the American way of life, promoting American prosperity, preserving peace through strength, and advancing American influence. Though non-binding and broadly worded, the strategy does offer a new sense of the Trump Administration’s desired direction for the country.
Pillar I: Protecting the American people, the homeland, and the American way of life
RUSH-uh.
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The White House broke down this national security overview into four core national security pillars: protecting the American way of life, promoting American prosperity, preserving peace through strength, and advancing American influence. Though non-binding and broadly worded, the strategy does offer a new sense of the Trump Administration’s desired direction for the country.
Pillar I: Protecting the American people, the homeland, and the American way of life
- “We will strengthen control of our borders and reform our immigration system. We will protect our critical infrastructure and go after malicious cyber actors. A layered missile defense system will defend our homeland against missile attacks. And we will pursue threats to their source, so that jihadist terrorists are stopped before they ever reach our borders.”
- This first pillar places military attacks from nation states such as North Korea and Iran, terrorist attacks by foreign and domestic actors, drug and human trafficking, intellectual property theft, unfair trade practices, and foreign interference in American political institutions together as the major security threats to the United States and the American way of life.
- Though the issue of terrorism is heavily framed around the threat of “jihadist terrorists,” the strategy does declare that “the United States rejects bigotry and oppression and seeks a future built on our values as one American people. We will deny violent ideologies the space to take root by improving trust among law enforcement, the private sector, and American citizens.”
- The need for improved border security, to include the construction of President Trump’s signature border wall and travel bans, are necessary to defend against attacks on the homeland involving weapons of mass destruction, as well as other terror plots, to protect against pandemic diseases, halt transnational criminal activity, protect America from dangerous cyber attacks, and shield critical civilian infrastructure, such as power grids, from physical, cyber, and electromagnetic pulse weapons, more commonly known as EMPs....
