Over six years ago, U.S. President Barack Obama came into office with a firm conviction that the United States needed to revitalize its alliances and renew its core security relationships around the world. That is why one of the most important tenets of his foreign policy has been to build strong partners. The Obama administration’s 2015 National Security Strategy makes clear that while the United States needs to continue to lead, it must do so with “capable partners” and that “no global problem can be solved without the United States and few can be solved by United States alone.”
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