Truman members speak out and call for action on national security issues.
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When leaders respond to fear with blame instead of accountability, the rule of law doesn’t just weaken—it cracks. This piece examines how selective enforcement and collective suspicion are reshaping our security and our democracy.
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The Truman National Security Project is deeply concerned following a meeting at Marine Corps Base Quantico where President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth instructed hundreds of U.S. generals and admirals to resign if they disagreed with the administration’s partisan policies.

In October 1945, representatives of fifty nations gathered in San Francisco to draft a new covenant for the world. On that cold day eighty years ago, those leaders signed the Charter of the United Nations, vowing to “save succeeding generations from the scourge of war.”