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b'At least once in a president\\u2019s term, the White House releases a document called the National Security Strategy. Mandated by Congress since the mid-1980s, the NSS is usually sheer boilerplate, a collage of clich\\xe9s about America\\u2019s role in the world. Few read it, but those who do come away with harrumphs of reassurance that the current people in power know what they\\u2019re doing and, by and large, are following the hallowed principles of their predecessors.'