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This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Tuesday, December 19th, 2017.

I'm Caleb Brown.

The president has released the administration's national security strategy document.

Cato Institute's Trevor Thrall says he learned that these documents in general don't usually

provide much insight about how actual national security planning gets done.

He comments.

What have we come to expect from presidential speeches about national security?

I think when presidents introduce new national security strategy

documents or talk big picture about national security and foreign

...