"America first": Trump Unveils US Security Strategy

US President Donald Trump on Monday announced a new National Security Strategy that administration officials have said will emphasize the president's "America first" message.

The four pillars of the strategy are protecting the US populace and the homeland; promoting US prosperity; preserving "peace through strength" and a strong military; and increasing US influence abroad, according to a draft of the NSS document shared with multiple news outlets.

"Strengthening our sovereignty — the first duty of a government is to serve the interests of its own people — is a necessary condition for protecting those four national interests," the draft version of the NSS document reads.

An official involved in preparing the document told Axios, " [it's] hard to say the document is cohesive… The doc doesn't reflect a lot of input from" the State Department and intelligence...

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