Security: New U.S. Strategy Focuses on Managing Threats

On the U.S.'s new national security strategy document ...

... to Mr. Obama’s team, it is a document that recognizes the world as it is and ends a era of illusion in which Washington confused projecting power with achieving results. “We are no less powerful,” Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday at the Brookings Institution. “We are shifting from mostly direct application and exercise of American power,” she said, to one of indirection, that requires patience and partners, and gets results more slowly.

For much more, see New U.S. Strategy Focuses on Managing Threats by David E. Sanger and Peter Baker, May 27, 2010.