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January 19, 2026
Trump’s ‘first resort’ use of military has succeeded but it has its limits
The president “is reaching for the military instrument much more quickly than the past,” Rosemary Kelanic, the Middle East director of Defense Priorities, a think tank that advocates a more restrained U.S. foreign policy, told the Washington Examiner, adding that he’s “resorting to military force more as a first-order resort, rather than a last resort, like we typically see” from U.S. presidents.
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