The Trump administration’s National Security Strategy isn’t a strategy. Despite its pedantic condescension of explaining that “a ‘strategy’ is a concrete, realistic plan that explains the essential connection between ends and means,” the document, released on Dec. 5, fails to meet that standard itself. This “strategy” is instead a statement of values. And those values are vandalism against the very things that have made the United States of America strong, safe, and prosperous.

The document lists the first U.S. vital interest as seeking to “ensure that the Western Hemisphere remains reasonably stable and well-governed enough to prevent and discourage mass migration to the United States” and hilariously plumps for a “Trump Corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine—though what that means is undefined.

The Trump administration’s National Security Strategy isn’t a strategy. Despite its pedantic condescension of explaining that “a ‘strategy’ is a concrete, realistic plan that explains the essential connection between ends and means,” the document, released on Dec. 5, fails to meet that standard itself. This “strategy” is instead a statement of values. And those values are vandalism against the very things that have made the United States of America strong, safe, and prosperous.

The document lists the first U.S. vital interest as seeking to “ensure that the Western Hemisphere remains reasonably stable and........

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