Brietbart - Trump’s Foreign Policy Threatens Military Generals Who Prefer the Status Quo

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The generals supported President Trump when he enabled them to fight and win, now they attack him for upending their status quo of control.

As Trump entered his fourth year in office this January his distinctive America first foreign policy had resulted in major accomplishments for our national security. Trump defeated ISIS’s territorial caliphate, killed its leader, killed Iranian terror master Qassim Sulimani, all while beginning the process of extracting our troops from Afghanistan and precarious positions in Syria. Trump accomplished all of this while not getting the US further entrenched in more wars in the Middle East, something his post 9/11 predecessors were incapable of.

Trump’s ability to avoid new wars while ending our longest war, and focusing on major threats like China is more than just campaign talk. Trump’s business-like America first policy is a strategy that seeks to leverage the full scope of American power to meet our national security needs as opposed to solely relying on the military and military leadership as our main tool of national power.

Since 9/11 Presidents Bush and Obama focused their foreign policy efforts on terrorism and the Middle East, leaning heavily, if not entirely, on the US military to solve all of the nation’s problems in this realm. Many in the US Military have warned that there are no military solutions to these complex problems but did their utmost to complete the missions they were assigned. After nearly two decades of war, we have made little to no progress by overburdening the military with all things foreign policy and neglecting major threats to our national security.

President Trump has shown through action that he will use military force decisively and with a purpose. ISIS’s destroyed caliphate and a dead Sulimani prove as much, however Trump is rightfully skeptical of enduring military commitments building nations or remaining in harm’s way with no clear benefit for the American people.

To accomplish our national security objectives Trump prefers to use our economic power and negotiations as opposed to never ending wars and troop commitments. This commonsense and balanced approach to the use of our national power restores the military to its rightful place as a force for deterrence and limited decisive action.

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