January 24, 2025 | Foreign Podicy
Trump’s National Security To-do List
January 24, 2025 Foreign Podicy
Trump’s National Security To-do List
As President Trump returns to the White House, he has no more important task than defense of the homeland and ensuring “peace through strength.” This is because U.S. national security is threatened by the deepening entente among the dictators in Beijing, Moscow, Tehran, Pyongyang — an Axis of Aggressors increasingly friendly a Star Wars cantina of terrorist groups.
National security requires a military machine that can deter enemies who are rational, and defeat those who are not. How can this be achieved — and what exactly should be the president’s top and immediate national security priorities?
Host Cliff May asks his FDD colleagues RADM (Ret) Mark Montgomery and Bradley Bowman.