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标题：Beyond the Tweets: President Trump’s Continuity in Military Operations
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作者：Peter Dombrowski ; Simon Reich
期刊名称：Strategic Studies Quarterly
印刷版ISSN：1936-1815
出版年度：2018
卷号：12
期号：2
页码：56-81
语种：English
出版社：Air University Press
摘要：Scholars and analysts continue reviewing and analyzing elements of change and continuity in President Trump’s US national security policy. Voices within the media and policy community have often questioned whether it is descending into chaos.1 Behind the focus of the daily news cycle is a more profound question: is President Trump’s approach to the use of military force characterized more by change or continuity compared to his predecessors? The prevailing opinion has favored change. We argue that even the apparently confusing periods of the first year of the Trump administration have been characterized more by continuity in military force decisions than change. In this article, we outline the reasons for this claim and defend it through three examples involving military forces: anti–Islamic State operations in Syria and Iraq, combating the Taliban in Afghanistan, and confronting North Korea.