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Guest Essay

By Jake Sullivan and Jon Finer

Mr. Sullivan is a former national security adviser. Mr. Finer is a former principal deputy national security adviser.

For those of us who were concerned about what foreign policy might look like in a second Trump term, there was always one aspect of his worldview that provided some modest reassurance: his relative reluctance regarding the use of force.

Yes, he has always been rhetorically bellicose. But Mr. Trump campaigned in 2016 in part by attacking his own party’s........

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