Donald Trump is Worsening the Imbalance between Defence and Diplomacy
Shoon Murray
15 December 2017Long Read
US Secretary of Defense James Mattis (left) and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in Washington, DC, June 2017. The Trump administration’s disdain for the diplomatic work of the State Department is sending a message: the US is so powerful it does not need
The US has long overvalued the military and undervalued the State Department, but President Donald Trump’s winnowing of the diplomatic corps is extreme, and it comes at a time when diplomats are needed more than ever.
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