WPR's The New Rules: Glass Half Full on Obama's New National Security Team

Monday, May 2, 2011 at 10:42AM
Thomas P.M. Barnett in Obama Administration, US foreign policy, WPR Column

President Barack Obama reshuffled his national security team last week, and the reviews were overwhelmingly positive. The White House proclaimed that this was the "strongest possible team," leaving unanswered the question, "Toward what end?" Obama's choices represent the continued reduction of the role of security as an administration priority. That fits into his determined strategy to reduce America's overseas military commitments amid the country's ongoing fiscal distress. Obama foresees a smaller, increasingly background role for U.S. security in the world, and these selections feed that pattern.

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