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This is on point.

I'm Megynachakrabardi.

The Trump administration has outlined its national defense and security goals for the next three years.

They are spelled out clearly in two separate 30-plus page documents called the

National Security Strategy and the National Defense Strategy. Now, these documents have been released

for some time, in some form, by every presidential administration since the 1980s. But not only

is the current Trump administration's security and defense policies, a shift

from many past American presidents. It's also an ideological shift from Trump's first administration.

These documents are bolder in their discarding of alliances, sharper in their focus on the

Western Hemisphere. So will these crucial changes actually keep America more secure?

Let's start today with Colonel Mark Kansion.

He's the senior advisor in the Defense and Security Department at the Center for Strategic

and International Studies at CSIS, a nonpartisan Washington think tank focused on national security.

Colonel Kansion also served for more than 30 years in the U.S. Marine Corps, and he joins us from Washington.

Colonel Kantan, welcome back to On Point.

Thanks for having me on the show.

So, first of all, describe to me sort of broadly how you see the 2026 national security and defense strategies as being different from the president's first

administration? Sure. Let me sprint through both documents real quick here and to give a sense

about what's in there. I think we should start with the national security strategy

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