Trump Revives ‘Peace Through Strength,’ but Meaning up to Debate

Jacob Stokes, a senior fellow at the Centre for a New American Security, said “peace through strength” can play out differently in theory and practice.

Even if Mr Trump builds the military, Mr Stokes said, the US would lose a key advantage if he again questioned US allies in ­Europe and Asia.

And cutting off military aid to Ukraine “might get you the peace part, but not necessarily the strength part,” Mr Stokes said.

“The pitfall is that you assume that more strength – and more demonstrations of it, and willingness to use it, perhaps even in irrational ways – necessarily means more peace.

“International politics is more complicated than that.”

“It’s a great political slogan for president Trump. The challenge of translating that effectively into a foreign policy will be a substantial and quite difficult one.”

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