Everything You Need To Know About the GOP's 2016 Candidates On National Security

Everything You Need To Know About the GOP's 2016 Candidates On National Security // Molly O'Toole

The world is a very different place today than in 2008 when President Barack Obama first ran for the White House. Almost six years later, a new slate of candidates is vying to inherit more chaos and instability as the land wars in Iraq and Afghanistan give way to complex counterterrorism fights from Syria to Sub-Saharan Africa, Vladimir Putin’s resurgent Russia challenges NATO, the West negotiates a lingering nuclear standoff with Iran and the U.S. pivots its power to the Asia-Pacific region.
Each crisis Obama faces is also a political opportunity for the Republican Party, which is looking to the 2016 presidential elections to reassert itself as the national security party, the one with the answer to the fundamental question: What is America’s role in the world? The field is crowded with up-and-comer senators, seasoned governors and familiar faces, all unabashedly jockeying to secure their superiority on foreign policy, national security and defense.
Here is Defense One’s guide to what we know so far about the Republican frontrunners and their national security positions (or lack thereof).
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