American foreign and defence policy is in the throes of change. A new national defence strategy points to a reduced focus on Europe and a heightened emphasis on the western hemisphere in general and the American homeland in particular. Military action against Iran and alleged drug cartels offers preliminary evidence of how the president thinks about the use of force. But there are larger unanswered questions over the administration's approach to nuclear strategy, competition with China and the proper balance of forces between different theatres. To what extent can we identify coherent elements of a Trump doctrine?
Shashank Joshi is Defence Editor at The Economist, where he covers a wide range of military and security issues. He is also a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Department of War Studies at King's College London. Prior to joining The Economist in 2018, he served as Senior Research Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). He was also a Research Associate at Oxford University’s Changing Character of War Programme. He has published books on Iran’s nuclear programme and India’s armed forces and holds degrees from Cambridge and Harvard, where he served as a Kennedy Scholar from Britain to the United States. He has given evidence to the House of Commons’ foreign and defence committees and to the House of Lords’ international relations and defence committee, as well as lecturing regularly to the UK Defence Academy. At The Economist he has reported extensively on the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, and his special reports have covered military technology, lessons from Ukraine and the future of intelligence.
Shashank Joshi is Defence Editor at The Economist, where he covers a wide range of military and security issues. He is also a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Department of War Studies at King's College London. Prior to joining The Economist in 2018, he served as Senior Research Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). He was also a Research Associate at Oxford University’s Changing Character of War Programme. He has published books on Iran’s nuclear programme and India’s armed forces and holds degrees from Cambridge and Harvard, where he served as a Kennedy Scholar from Britain to the United States. He has given evidence to the House of Commons’ foreign and defence committees and to the House of Lords’ international relations and defence committee, as well as lecturing regularly to the UK Defence Academy. At The Economist he has reported extensively on the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, and his special reports have covered military technology, lessons from Ukraine and the future of intelligence.