Trump's grand strategic train wreck
Policy implications of his basic grand strategic concepts add up to a Gordian knot of conflicting initiatives
Washington
BELIEVE it or not, President Donald Trump has a grand strategy. According to some analysts, Mr Trump's endless streams of erratic and apparently improvisational ideas don't add up to anything consistent or purposeful enough to call a grand strategy. We see it otherwise. Beneath all the rants, tweets and noise, there is actually a discernible pattern of thought - a Trumpian view of the world that goes back decades. Mr Trump has put forward a clear vision to guide his administration's foreign policy - albeit a dark and highly troubling one, riddled with tensions and vexing dilemmas.
Grand strategy is the conceptual architecture that lends structure and form to foreign policy. It represents a more purposeful and deeply held set of concepts about a country's goals and orientation in international affairs.
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