Rebuild military, limit foreign wars, unleash AI: GOP platform lays out Trump’s security priorities

Published on July 17, 2024

 

The construction of an Israel-style Iron Dome missile shield over America. A new and seemingly less-regulated approach to artificial intelligence. Pushing allies to spend even more on their defense. And a trade-centric approach to U.S.-China competition that aims to undercut the global economic advantages Beijing has spent decades building.

Those are a few of the foreign policy and national security planks in the Republicans’ official 2024 platform, which is light on many specifics but heavy on the broad “America First” principles that have come to define Donald Trump’s party.

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