Compose a 1750 words assignment on us national security strategy. Needs to be plagiarism free! From a foreign policy standpoint, the United States has taken a variety of initiatives to ensure the security of this great nation. While the US military presence in Afghanistan is controversial, it remains quite important due to the unique economic and social situation in one of the most underdeveloped countries on the planet. Beset by warlordism, economic underdevelopment, and violence over the course of the past century, Afghanistan remains one of the poorest and most underdeveloped countries on earth. The Afghan people deserve better and this is why the United States is committed to ensuring the peace, security and long-term development of this country. While poverty remains endemic, life expectancy is reported by the Central Intelligence Agency as only 45 years. This is indicative of the work that the United States must do in order to increase the livelihood of the people of Afghanistan (CIA, 2009).

Barack Obama, the newly anointed President of the United States of America, has entered the Presidency with a completely new and novel approach to the problems afflicting Afghanistan. Our new American policy approach includes the deployment of 17,000 additional soldiers in an attempt to stabilize the country. Attempting to quell the return of the Taliban, more American troops are being deployed to the south where violence is endemic. Focusing on the joint tasks of stabilizing the country and reinvesting in reconstruction, the new regime in Washington is doing its best to make a break with the past and refocus on energies on uprooting the Taliban and stabilizing the country once and for all. According to David Loyn of the British Broadcasting Corporation, “the political system that is emerging in Afghanistan may not have the most rigorous democratic standards, but the Bush years of believing that countries could be fixed by imposing a voting system from outside are over.”&nbsp.