Authored by Ryan Morgan via The Epoch Times,
President Donald Trump’s administration rolled out its new counterterrorism strategy overview on May 6, articulating recent policy shifts and new pledges going forward.
The 16-page strategyguideseeks to articulate an “America First” approach to dealing with militants, extremists, and criminal enterprises.
“For the 25th Anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, America has returned to a common sense and reality-based Counterterrorism Strategy,” the document states.
“President Trump has [effected] a complete revision of how we defeat threats to America predicated on national sovereignty and civilizational confidence and the objective of destroying the groups who would kill Americans or hurt our interests as a free nation.”
Here are four key points in the new strategy rollout.
The new strategy document articulates a widened aperture for U.S. counterterrorism efforts.
“We face new categories and combinations of violent actors that make the established ways of doing counterterrorism insufficient or obsolete,” the document reads.
Although U.S. counterterror efforts have long focused on threats posed by radical Islamist groups, the new strategy document also lists “violent left-wing extremists” and “narcoterrorists and transnational gangs” among the top three major categories of terror groups.
The Trump administration has already taken steps to apply counterterrorism authorities to violent left-wing groups and ideological movements that oppose the American way of life as outlined in the founding documents.
Source: ZeroHedge News
