“To Provide for the Common Defense”: The US National Defense Strategy

The 2018 National Defense Strategy (NDS) is the latest in a series of periodic documents issued by the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) as a guide to how the department will respond to military expectations set by the President of the United States and broad U.S. foreign policy interests.  While the NDS is classified, an unclassified summary was released January 2018.  As part of an effort to provide an independent critique and audit of...