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Opinion | ‘Asia First’ Misses the Point
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From WSJopinion: An underprepared America faces serious security challenges in both Asia and Europe, writes wrmead. Americans will need to address the national-strategy deficit that currently undermines our position around the world.

, the American foreign-policy community was obsessed with a debate about . . . the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

For Asia hands, this was the worst kind of déjà vu. After Pearl Harbor, much to a nervous Winston Churchill’s relief, President Franklin D. Roosevelt made “Germany first” the guiding principle for American war strategy. As the Cold War intensified, similar sentiments led Secretaries of State Dean Acheson and George Marshall to prioritize Europe over Asia as the arena in which the U.S. would work to block the expansion of communist power.

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