Statecraft

Forming Trump’s National Security Team

The media is already informing us that Trump’s transition team is having a difficult time finding veteran foreign policy mavens to work for them. This shouldn’t surprise, since the majority of seasoned national security experts and pundits inside the Beltway (those two not being the same thing) came out against Trump—some very publicly—during the hard-fought campaign. I, too, was critical aspects of Trump’s foreign policy vision, including his towing the Kremlin line on issues like Ukraine and his all-around strange relationship with Vladimir Putin.

However, it’s time to move on. Trump has been elected and he will soon be our commander-in-chief. Counterintelligence will always be a big concern of mine, but we have our new president, so let’s see what can be achieved. He’s promised radical changes to America’s foreign and defense policy, and Trump can’t do that alone.