How Trump’s New Counterterrorism Strategy Puts You at Risk
Most Read How Trump’s New Counterterrorism Strategy Puts You at Risk Nick Turse, Jessica Washington, Noah Hurowitz The Intercept annotated the White House document to show how the U.S. government is bringing its war on terror home. excerpt: the Trump administration last week unveiled its “ 2026 Counterterrorism Strategy ,” a 16-page collection of threats, grievances, hyperbole, and lies. The memo is a truly foundational document and a striking distillation of Trumpism as an ideology, movement, and system of governance. It also serves as a new declaration of war on the Trump administration’s enemies — foreign and domestic, real and imagined. The brainchild of National Security Council official Sebastian Gorka , the “Counterterrorism Strategy” weaves together Trump’s war on the wider world — which stretches from interventions and wars in Yemen and Iran to Nigeria and Somalia to Venezuela and the Caribbean Sea — with the administ...
