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The ‘Trump Doctrine’ isn’t just branding — it’s a crucial update for US power

7 29
yesterday

President Donald Trump likes putting his name on things, so maybe it was inevitable he’d get his own corollary to the Monroe Doctrine. 

Truth be told, what the president’s just-released National Security Strategy sets out as a new proposition is a re-statement of the Lodge Corollary, named after Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge in 1912.

That proviso prohibited any foreign power or interest — not just European governments — from gaining “practical power of control” in the Western Hemisphere. 

Naming rights aside, the treatment of our hemisphere is a strong element of the strategy.

The so-called Trump corollary aims to assert US preeminence in the hemisphere, and to keep non-hemispheric actors from positioning forces or controlling strategically vital assets here.

It is, in the words of the strategy, “a common-sense and potent restoration of American power and priorities, consistent with American security........

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