Ex-Defense Secretary Mattis Urges Joe Biden To End President Trump’s ‘America First’ Policy

Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis helped pen an article arguing that 'America First' is 'America Alone'

Military.com: Mattis Calls on Biden to Scrap 'America First' Policy, Slow Pullout from Afghanistan

Former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has broken his silence on the election with a public call to President-elect Joe Biden to alter the course of current defense policy.

Alongside three co-authors, Mattis published a piece in Foreign Affairs on Monday warning against abrupt departure from Afghanistan and calling for the elimination of "America First" as a tenet of defense strategy.

"To dismiss U.S. involvement today in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere as 'endless' or 'forever' wars -- as both President Donald Trump and President-elect Joe Biden do -- rather than as support to friendly governments struggling to exert control over their own territory misses the point," Mattis and his co-authors wrote.

"It is in the United States' interests to build the capacity of such governments to deal with the threats that concern Americans."

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Update #1: Ex-Defense Secretary Mattis urges Joe Biden to end Trump’s ‘America first’ policy (New York Post) Update #2: Mattis says Biden should eliminate Trump's 'America First' policies (Business Insider)

WNU Editor: President Trump has responded to Former Defense Secretary Mattis remarks .... Furious Donald Trump lashes out at Jim Mattis for saying 'America First' needs to be ditched from national security policy and says 'I should have fired him sooner' even though Marine quit first (Daily Mail).

Update #3: Jim Mattis' Foreign Affairs post is here .... Defense In Depth: Why U.S. Security Depends on Alliances—Now More Than Ever (Kori Schake, Jim Mattis, Jim Ellis, and Joe Felter, Foregn Affairs).