- Prof. Louis Renรฉ Beres
- March 7, 2019
- Paper No. 1105
While President Trump intends to bolster US power through enhanced weapons systems and a rededication to belligerent nationalist foreign policies, authentic national security will require new emphases on intellect, or โmind.โ This means focusing on new ways of thinking about world politics, especially much-needed escapeย plans from lethal cycles of competitive geopolitics. Washington must slow its still-growing inclination toward renewed arms racing and to other kinds of military escalation and shift its policy emphases to the greater utilities of intellect.