Three Pillars of Trump:US Defence
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2018
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump came to office insisting he would end America’s mismanaged wars and invest in defence. In an unusual breach with past practice he chose a general to head up the Pentagon. But how far has defence policy changed in Trump’s first year? Is he likely to take US forces into new confrontations? And what of those who see Mr Trump as having a potentially irresponsible finger on the nuclear button? BBC Defence and Diplomatic correspondent, Jonathan Marcus, examines the relationship between Trump and the Generals.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello from the BBC World Service and welcome to the latest edition of the |
| 0:05.0 | documentary podcast. Every week we bring you a range of stories from our |
| 0:09.8 | presenters and reporters across the world. |
| 0:13.0 | If you have the time, please rate the documentary on your podcast app and leave us a comment. |
| 0:18.1 | Let us know what you think. |
| 0:19.6 | BBC World Service, I'm Defence Correspondent Jonathan Marcus and welcome to three pillars of Trump. We're going to have the finest equipment in the world. It's going to be new, it's going to be modern, |
| 0:37.0 | it's going to be clean, it's going to be the best. That's what we're going to have. |
| 0:41.0 | We're not going to be a depleted military anymore. |
| 0:45.0 | From now on, it's going to be America first. |
| 0:50.0 | America first. |
| 0:55.0 | President Donald Trump came to office with a clear goal to make America strong |
| 1:01.0 | so now one year on what's the new president actually achieved. |
| 1:06.0 | In this special series we'll be looking at three major pillars of government policy, |
| 1:11.0 | defense, foreign affairs and and health care to assess how much |
| 1:15.8 | has really changed. |
| 1:17.4 | We don't want to have a depleted military because we're all over the place fighting in areas that just we shouldn't be fighting in. |
| 1:27.2 | We're gonna have such a strong powerful military. |
| 1:30.1 | President-elect Donald Trump speaking at a victory rally in Fayetteville, North Carolina in December 2016. |
| 1:38.0 | His main theme, a stronger America. But what would this mean for defense? First he had to pick his team and here he broke with convention. |
| 1:48.0 | Obviously the committee meets today to consider the nomination of General James Mattis to be the Secretary of Defense of the United States. |
| 1:58.0 | Two years ago, General Mattis, the last time he came before this committee, the idea that we would be meeting |
| 2:03.9 | again under the present circumstances would have been hard to imagine, most of all, by you, but I, for |
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