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Question 2: How Important is NATO to US Foreign Policy and National Interest?             NATO holds a significant amount of importance within United States foreign policy and also within it’s national interest. NATO’s original goals were, defend Europe from the Soviet Union, stop militarism in Europe, and focus on European integration. While some of this may need to be adjusted, for example the Soviet Union now no longer exists in the same way it did when NATO was originally founded, it can still be adapted when looking at foreign policy and national interest. For example, while the Soviet Union had disbanded by the end of the 1980s, Russia’s relationship with the U.S and the rest of Europe has been turbulent. There have been numerous conflicts between the Europe and Russia throughout it’s post USSR years, and it can be argued that Europe still needs to be defended from Russia. In terms of national interest, NATO helped in resp...

What is the purpose of NATO? NATO, like the overarching goals of the United States, seems to have an identity crisis rooted in several contradictions. It began as a way to curb militaristic regimes in Europe, but was itself a military alliance. It is an organization focused on the Atlantic, but its recent expansion and its abroad partnerships may suggest it expanding beyond its original purpose. Its operates in both peacekeeping and integration, but the United Nations serves the former and the European Union the latter. Finally, there is the question of who is pulling what weight, a question particularly raised in recent times by President Trump. Only five countries currently spend above the goal of 2% of national GDP spent towards the military. More specific to the U.S., questions still abound over how much NATO is a tool being weaponized to contain Russia. Moreover, during the Cold War, their purported goals to curb militarism in Europe seemed to contradict their policy of suppor...

Question: 2) How important is NATO to US Foreign Policy/National Interests?          NATO is somewhat important to the United States’ Foreign Policy. Although we are not in a Cold War, Russia still has power and is a nuclear state. Being a part of NATO has given us influence in many countries that border or are close to Russia. If one of these nations were attacked, we would go in and fight under NATO. This obviously doesn’t make Russia excited about this possibility as they want to be able to do what they want. This keeps them from really expanding out too much greater area. I would say that NATO is not as important as it once was but is not something to get rid of. For the smaller countries that are apart of NATO, this alliance is very important for security. The United States helped to form this alliance and should not abandon it. Russia has not been able to do as much as they probably would have wanted to do while they were still the So...

The members of NATO’s original objectives were to defend Europe from communism and the Soviet Union. Now those threats are void, but NATO’s three defined goals are still to provide collective defense, crisis management, and collective security. NATO is important to the United States’ foreign policy and national interests. Article V of the Washington Treaty guarantees collective security, or that an attack against one ally is an attack against all. This article of the Treaty has been invoked once so far in response to the terrorist attacks in the United States on September 11, 2001. This continues to be a very pertinent issue considering the growing threats of terrorism throughout the United States and Europe. NATO is also present in the affairs in the Middle East, especially Afghanistan as it leads the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) where it conducts missions and extensive training exercises to offer support to allies. The United States is very involv...

To: Donald Trump, President of the United States From: Colman Lydon, Secretary of State Date: March 4, 2018 RE: America First Context:             America has been since as a country that was built on the manufacturing industry. Its true that in a lot if it’s formative years as a country, manufacturing was the job that many American had an could also depend on. However, in recent years, not many Americans have jobs in manufacturing plans, and there a not many manufacturing plants in the United States. There have been two different rationales for why this is happening. The first is that the United States has outsourced many of its manufacturing plants to outside countries. This would look like the popular thought. While people who support this idea are not wrong, there is a much bigger problem to American jobs, and that is automation of many workplaces. Evidence:         ...

Memorandum on America First To: Donald Trump, President of the United States From: Michael Herlihy, Secretary of State Date: February 28 th , 2018   Re: America First Introduction All across the United States we have seen a vast change in the economy with loss of jobs countries overseas, a crippling infrastructure, and too many regulations on businesses to grow. We have been pushed around too much by other countries taking advantage of our aid. The United States no longer should be the world’s police. It is the time Mr. President to put our foot down and take care of our country first before others. Isolationism of course is not something that should happen as that would not benefit us but rather we need to put an emphasis on our countries needs instead of trying to take care of everyone else. A person can only do so much for others if they don’t take care of themselves. What I suggest we do is focus on this country’s infrastructure, deregulating businesses so ...