President Donald Trump Monday unveiled his national security strategy, a blueprint for future military and foreign policy, defense spending, trade negotiations and international cooperation.
The security strategy is built around four pillars:
1. Protecting the homeland
- Reforming the immigration system and strengthening border control
- Targeting transnational terrorist groups and crime syndicates at the source
- Keeping critical infrastructure and digital networks safe
- Deploying a missile defense system
2. Promoting prosperity
- Retaliation against “economic aggression”
- Embracing “energy dominance” by removing obstacles to exploitation of shale and other domestic resources
- Making America more than self-sufficient in energy, including development of nuclear and other power sources
- Fighting theft of American intellectual property
3. Peace through strength
- Rebuild America’s military strength
- Getting American allies to spend more on defense
- Ensure the balance of power remains in America’s favor in key regions — the Indo-Pacific, Europe, and the Middle East
4. Advancing American influence
- Diplomatic and development efforts will focus on protecting U.S. interests, finding economic opportunities for Americans, and challenging competitors
- Promote free market economies, private sector growth, political stability, and peace
- Shift away from a reliance on assistance based on grants to approaches that attract private capital
