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Conrad Black: Trump’s Military Moves Reinforce US Preeminence Over China

Conrad Black: Trump’s Military Moves Reinforce US Preeminence Over China
Two F/A-18 Super Hornets launch from the flight deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Mediterranean Sea in support of Operation Epic Fury, on March 3, 2026. U.S. Navy via Getty Images
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American strategic policy under President Trump has been so imaginative and so professionally executed by the U.S. Armed Forces that the punditocracy, none too blessed with piercing insight the best of times, has generally failed to recognize the proportions of its success. In the 13 months of this second Trump administration, a technique has been devised that has demonstrated it can almost immunize the United States against the depredations of its enemies, who have been subsidizing terrorism and guerrilla warfare to harass and enervate America.

Conrad Black
Conrad Black
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Conrad Black has been one of Canada’s most prominent financiers for 40 years and was one of the leading newspaper publishers in the world. He’s the author of authoritative biographies of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Richard Nixon, and, most recently, “Donald J. Trump: A President Like No Other,” which has been republished in updated form. Follow Conrad Black with Bill Bennett and Victor Davis Hanson on their podcast Scholars and Sense.