While you wouldn¡¯t know it from the recent U.S.-Israeli military confrontation with Iran, the latest , made public in December, marks a decisive departure from the post-Cold War paradigm. It explicitly characterizes previous U.S. strategy ¡ª under which Washington assumed responsibility for global challenges ¡ª as fundamentally ¡°misguided¡± and declares a retreat from its role as the dominant global power.
Instead, the strategy reorients U.S. security around homeland defense and a Western Hemisphere-focused approach described as a ¡°Trump corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.¡± U.S. President Donald Trump has dubbed this the ¡°Donroe Doctrine,¡± signaling a prioritization of hemispheric stability.
Within this framework, the primary threats to the U.S. homeland are identified as illegal migration and narcotics flows from Latin America. Stabilizing the Western Hemisphere is thus positioned as essential to mitigating these risks.
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