By Alejandra Jaramillo, CNN
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The White House quietly released President Donald Trump's new national security strategy late this week, a 33-page document that elevates his "America First" doctrine and sets out the administration's realignment of US foreign policy, from shifting military resources in the Western Hemisphere to taking an unprecedentedly confrontational posture toward Europe.
The strategy centres on Trump's call for a "readjustment" of the US military presence in the Western Hemisphere to counter migration, drug trafficking and what it describes as the rise of adversarial powers in the region.
It outlines plans for a larger Coast Guard and Navy presence in the region and deployments to "secure the border and defeat cartels, including where necessary the use of lethal force."
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