Peace Strategy: Strengthening Defense and Preserving Peace

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Introduction
The defense strategy of the United States of America can be summarized as the four
pillars whose mention one can find in the document of the National Security Strategy, published
in the year 2017, in the month of December. It is an extremely important piece of document
which can be called as the basis and the guiding principle of the foreign policy approach of the
nation. Each of the pillars deal with a specific aspect of defense and the goal of them is to ensure
that the balance between the maintenance if global peace and cooperation among the nations and
at the same time also ensure that the national interest of the United States of America is upheld
without making other nations compromise for it.
On the basis of the global political scenario which is prevailing in the contemporary times
that the current approach towards safeguarding the security of the nation has been adopted to
meet the needs of the time (Buckley, 2018). The first pillar deals with the safety, security and
preservation of the American people and their way of life. The second pillar is concerned with
the prosperity of the nation. The third pillar is concerned with the preservation of peace. The
fourth pillar seeks to the advancement of the American influence in a positive manner (Trump,
2017).
For the purpose herein, the goal is to discuss about the third pillar which seeks to
preserve peace and strength. Choosing the third pillar has been from the point of view that peace
is a perpetual necessity as the world at large is constantly in need of peace. On a regular basis, in
some part of the world or the other peace gets disrupted and the need to preserve peace is a

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constant necessity which cannot be compromised at any cost. In the following sections, the
discussion shall be focusing upon
Overview
The basic goal of the third pillar as envisaged by President Trump has been to strengthen
the position of America in the international sphere by means of challenging the balance effect of
four key nation states China, Iran, Russia and North Korea. Those nation states have in the recent
times posed serious threats to the sphere of international politics by spreading their corrupted,
illiberal and undemocratic ideological predispositions to serve their national interest at the cost
of making other nations compromise with their securitarian concerns.
In order to contain the influence USA has in the field of international politics, the
abovementioned four nations have embarked upon a harmful competition which shall pose a
serious threat not only to USA but shall be potent enough to disrupt the world peace. President
Trump had proclaimed over years USA had devoted too much attention to solving political
issues in foreign nations at the cost of neglecting the domestic affairs and her adversaries have
taken advantage of it (Trump, 2017). Hence President Trump has envisaged a strategy that shall
be focusing on regaining the lost glory of the nation by embarking upon a policy which shall
seek to strengthen the areas such as intelligence, domestic economy, technology, information and
military so that it becomes easier for the United States of America to contain the surreptitious
motives of the abovementioned four nations. The pursuance of those goals shall be a part of
America’s drive to enhance her competitive advantages.

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With regard to intelligence and information technology, President Trump has devoted
much importance to the enhancement of the space research programme in order to garner more
accurate and important information about navigations, keeping a check on the activities of the
adversary nations and also for monitoring the conditions of weather. The threat of hacking of
important websites and databases by Russian, Chinese and North Korean intelligence systems
have in recent times posed great threat to the cyber security of USA, hence the nation shall be
embarking upon a programme to develop the cyber space and safeguard the websites and
databases from getting hacked and vital information leaked. The hacking of the US Elections by
Russian hackers had raised alarms about the level of cyber security of the country (Trump,
2017).
The development of the intelligence system and information technology shall also be
beneficial for the realization of the goal of strengthening the military for better communication
and also for accessing knowledge about the advances of the adversary nations. Iranian nuclear
facilities which were developed secretly were intercepted by means of intelligence and that had
caused serious alarm. Not just Iran; Russia, China and North Korea are nuclear powers and are
on a constant look out for opportunities to balance USA and jeopardize the status of the nation as
the super power in the post cold war era. Hence apart from enhancing the intelligence facilities,
USA has also sought to increase the military budget. It has been deemed necessary in order to
counter the militarization that Iran, China, Russia and North Korea have taken to, on massive
scale. Information is a major weapon which is capitalized by the adversaries of USA to
jeopardize the values of America, hence safeguarding of information is a major challenge for
USA for the safeguard her securitarian concerns as well as her economy and trade related issues
(Trump, 2017).