1-It insists upon a clear-eyed focus on Russia and China as greater potential threats than ISIS or Al Qaeda.
2-In true Mattis-like fashion, it describes the importance of preserving American operational flexibility and unpredictability (as underscored in the fact that the main body of the document is classified).
There are three main reasons why some observers contend that we may be either witnessing a return to—or on the cusp of reprising—the 1930s. The first is democratic recession. Freedom House observed at the beginning of 2018 that 2017 marked the 12th consecutive year of decline in global freedom. Seventy-one countries suffered net declines in […]