Trump's National Security Strategy release illustrates the ongoing battle between the president's instincts and foreign policy mainstreamers in his administration

Last month President Trump released a new National Security Strategy (NSS) mapping out his administration's foreign policy for the coming years. While this latest NSS is rather different from Trump's actual foreign policy rhetoric, Jonny Hall cautions that we should not let these differences divert us. This NSS departs from previous strategies and embodies the battle within the administration between populism and more mainstream foreign policy thinking.