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John Bolton has established himself as the Republican Party’s most militant foreign-policy thinker. What is his agenda in the White House? (THREAD) nyer.cm/TEhuuKL
In his various government jobs and as a commentator on Fox News, John Bolton has long argued for a more militant approach to U.S. foreign policy. But President Trump wants to scale back America’s foreign commitments. nyer.cm/TEhuuKL 
Still, with Trump’s national-security team depleted—no permanent Secretary of Defense, no Secretary of Homeland Security, no Ambassador to the U.N.—Bolton would have extraordinary latitude in a crisis. nyer.cm/TEhuuKL
In the White House, Bolton has developed a reputation for insularity, often disappearing into his office to immerse himself in documents. The result, says one former national-security official, is chaos. nyer.cm/TEhuuKL
Read Dexter Filkins’s Profile of John Bolton, the President’s hawkish national-security adviser: nyer.cm/TEhuuKL
