Rethinking the National Security Strategy for the United States

Setting Priorities for American Leadership: A New National Security Strategy for the United States

A recent report by the Project for a United and Strong America proposes a new National Security Strategy for the United States. From the report's foreword: "[...] nothing is more important to the future security and well-being of the United States than a clear national strategy for advancing US values and interests - a strategy that makes choices among competing priorities and that is sustainable given the United States’ limited financial, political, and military resources. To address this challenge, a panel of foreign policy and national security experts has produced the following blueprint for a new National Security Strategy for the United States. The strategy places a priority on strength at home in order to underpin a strong US role in the world. It assumes from the outset that the advancement of universal values of democracy and human rights is itself in the long-term security interest of the United States, and that the United States should continue to exercise global leadership. Yet it accepts the need to set priorities and to work with limited resources."

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