What an Honest National Security Strategy Would Say

Staffers on the U.S. National Security Council are currently putting the finishing touches to the Trump administration's congressionally mandated National Security Strategy. The strategy is supposed to describe America's interests, identify the threats to those interests, and describe a strategy to counter them. But Trump's National Security Council faces a unique problem: The greatest threat to America's national security is not some foreign enemy. It is the president of the United States. This calls for innovative strategy — so here I imagine what the “adults in the room” might write if they were to acknowledge this unique challenge.