For better or worse, we are returning to the mentality that followed Vietnam until the first Gulf War.
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U.S. troops patrol at an Afghan National Army base in Logar Province, Afghanistan, August 7, 2018.
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Both officially and unofficially, Trump’s foreign policy has been described as “principled realism.” What does that mean?
Neither nation building nor apologetic isolationism? Hurting Iran by not sending ground troops into the Middle East, but by ratcheting up sanctions and deterrent U.S. naval and air power in the region?
About the Author
Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University; the author of The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won; and a distinguished fellow of the Center for American Greatness.
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Both officially and unofficially, Trump’s foreign policy has been described as “principled realism.” What does that mean?
Neither nation building nor apologetic isolationism? Hurting Iran by not sending ground troops into the Middle East, but by ratcheting up sanctions and deterrent U.S. naval and air power in the region?
About the Author
Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University; the author of The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won; and a distinguished fellow of the Center for American Greatness.
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