FOREIGN POLICY/MCMASTER/NATIONAL SECURITY/NORTH KOREA: “The Trump administration will roll out its first national-security strategy in the next few weeks, marking the beginning of what it calls a tough new approach to confront a raft of global security challenges.
White House officials said the strategy encompasses the threat of North Korea’s nuclear arms, global terrorism and Iranian meddling, as well as China’s growing influence in Asia and Russian aggression and propaganda efforts in the West.
The strategy will seek to set out the administration’s terms for expanding global partnerships, White House National Security Adviser Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster said, making clear those alliances will only work if other nations do more…
The administration’s national-security strategy has been in development since Gen. McMaster joined the administration in March and was discussed by President Donald Trump’s top national-security advisers last week, officials said.
The strategy also has prompted critics to ask whether the new approach will try to do too much, avoiding hard choices…
Gen. McMaster broadly outlined the new security strategy, which includes four pillars, to the audience at the Reagan forum: Protecting the American people and homeland; advancing American prosperity through growth, trade and expanding the American industrial base; “preserving peace through strength” to counter China, Russia, North Korea and Iran; and terrorism in the Middle East…
The administration still faces the challenge of winning funding for its expanded military and national-security plans from a divided congress, analysts and other officials here said.”
-Julian E. Barnes and Gordon Lubold, “McMaster Gives Glimpse of New U.S. National Security Strategy,” The Wall Street Journal online, Dec. 3, 2017 06:24pm