Common Defense:

I fully support a very robust Common Defense achieved under the George Washington and Thomas Jefferson Doctrines of Peace through strength in International Waters and at home; free trade, honest friendship and the cessation of entangling alliances abroad. However, our projection of an “outer defense” through our Navy and Marine Corps needs to be executed with the greatest precision possible, NOT through unconstitutional delegations of congressional war declaration powers to the President for the purpose of preemptive invasions or costly occupations. Therefore, all expeditionary un-declared wars and unconstitutional deployments of our Army and Air Force WILL cease immediately. This specifically includes ending all military actions in Korea, Iraq and Libya. Moreover, I will return Homeland Security to the care of our National Guard which has always been and always should remain the Republic’s primary means of homeland defense. I will remove the TSA from the business of providing personal airport security and return that function to the Citizens, Airlines and Airport Operators respectively. The Air National Guard will then protect the Republic’s airspace NOT individuals.

Congress should work tirelessly to ensure that when war is necessary, that it be properly declared and when military actions short of war are necessary that those also be properly codified and announced through the issuance of legal letters of reprisal in accordance with Article I, Section 8. I will veto ANY Declaration of War of Letters of Reprisal which; 1. Are not passed by a 2/3 majority vote of the Congress and 2. Which give the President the power to widen the scope of the conflict without returning to Congress for that permission. No president should commit the lives of Republic’s Posterity to the hell of battle with such little resolve of the Congress as what passed Obama Care. The only justifiable reasons to vote for a war declaration or issuance of letters of reprisal are: for war; the infringement upon the lives, liberty or property of Americans by foreign sovereigns: for letters of reprisal; the same infringements above engaged in by stateless actors such as terrorists or pirates.

Lastly, I will seek officers having achieved Flag Rank and encourage them to apply to the Congress for Letters of Marque which will then allow Citizens of the Republic to serve abroad for the causes which are on their conscious. This action will allow those that want to fight for freedom around the world or provide humanitarian aid to do so WITHOUT cost the U.S. Taxpayers OR forcing those sworn only to defend the Republic and its Constitution to fight for other People’s and other Sovereigns.

Aside: there is a very convincing argument that our expeditionary wars and CIA interference with foreign sovereigns has hurt rather than improved upon our common Defense by spending the Republic into bankruptcy, overstretching our military forces and making unforeseen enemies out of former allies which we had previously trained and equipped at our expense. Thus, I will return the CIA back to Naval Intelligence and cease its nefarious operations which have produced dubious security at best and seriously exposed the Republic to foreign aggression at worst.

Foreign Policy:

Peace through strength in International Waters and at home; free trade, honest friendship and the cessation of entangling alliances abroad.

Hopefully this will answer the question Eric asked:
“I fully support a very robust Common Defense achieved under the George Washington and Thomas Jefferson Doctrines of Peace through strength in International Waters and at home; free trade, honest friendship and the cessation of entangling alliances abroad.” RJ Harris