A good analysis, although many will find its praise of the Trump Administration's foreign policy hard to accept, given Trump's dangerous autocratic tendencies a

A good analysis, although many will find its praise of the Trump Administration's foreign policy hard to accept, given Trump's dangerous autocratic tendencies and his Administration's incompetence in domestic governance...but the Pentagon has long been clear eyed and prepared for different geopolitical scenarios, and found a receptive administration at a time of clearly heightened geopolitical struggles. Honestly, the biggest weakness here is the assumption that many of these strategies began with Trump, when in fact many were emerging under Biden...by this, what I mean, is that it has less to do with politics and the current President, and more about the long term planners and strategists coming to clear concensuses on how to proceed