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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Politics
Joseph Stepansky

‘Bomb first’: Trump’s approach to war-making in his second term

US President Donald Trump holds a meeting in the Situation Room at the White House in Washington, DC, US June 21, 2025. [The White House/Handout via Reuters]

Washington, DC – During the first six months of his second term, Donald Trump pushed the limits of US presidential power while aiming to reorient US foreign policy to “America First”.

His first months in office have also offered a window into the future of his administration’s approach to war-making, what analysts characterise as an at times contradictory tactic that oscillates between avowed anti-interventionism and quicksilver military attacks, justified as “peace through strength”.

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