Politics & National Security
National Security Highlights in the 2019 State of the Union
Lev Sugarman Wed, Feb 6, 2019, 10:30 AM
We watched the speech so you don’t have to.
Politics & National Security
Tony Webster / Ben Balter (background)
One of the great benefits of democracy is that politics impacts policy, even national security policy. Elections, confirmation battles, and legislative fights all affect the way the United States balances its competing priorities, interests and values as it conducts foreign and security affairs. National security professionals would therefore be wise to keep an eye on what candidates are saying about national security matters, how they are faring in the polls, and on which way the winds in Congress seem to be blowing the national security issues of the day.