69.4: National Security Strategy
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A Failed National Security Strategy -- The current Administration’s most recent National Security Strategy reflects the extreme
elements in its liberal domestic coalition. It is a budget-constrained blueprint that, if fully implemented, will diminish
the capabilities of our Armed Forces. The strategy significantly increases the risk of future conflict by declaring to our
adversaries that we will no longer maintain the forces necessary to fight and win more than one conflict at a time. It relies
on the good intentions and capabilities of international organizations to justify constraining American military readiness.
Finally, the strategy subordinates our national security interests to environmental, energy, and international health issues,
and elevates “climate change” to the level of a “severe threat” equivalent to foreign aggression. The word “climate,” in fact,
appears in the current President’s strategy more often than Al Qaeda, nuclear proliferation, radical Islam, or weapons of
mass destruction. The phrase “global war on terror” does not appear at all, and has been purposely avoided and changed by
his Administration to “overseas contingency operations.”
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