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The final document mentions "radical Islamist terrorism", a term that refers to acts of terrorism perpetrated by networks affiliated with Sunni Muslims such as the Islamic State, according to a senior administration official who spoke under anonymity before publishing the report.
But substituting "Islamist" for "Islamic," said the official, the strategy seeks to avoid condemning Islam as a whole.
The new strategy bears the imprint of Mr. Bolton, who has focused on the Iranian threat, which he described in a White House statement as "the central banker of international terrorism since 1979," backing groups militants and terrorists from the Middle East. Iran's role was on the Department of State's annual list of global terrorist threats last month.
The strategy set an uncompromising goal by stating: "We will eliminate the ability of terrorists to threaten America, our interests and our commitment to the world". 2001, attacks. "We are a nation at war," says the document, "and it's a war that the United States will win."
This reverses the position of former President Barack Obama, who said in May 2013: "Our systematic effort to dismantle terrorist organizations must continue. But this war, like all wars, must end.
Mr. Bolton argued that it was wrong to suggest to the Americans that the war on terror, which he called a long ideological struggle, was over. "The idea that we can say one way or another that we can simply say," We are tired of this war and it will disappear "is, I think, a mistake," he said.
Contrary to Trump's confident public statements, the report presented a sober view of the threat posed by the Islamic State. Despite the loss of nearly 1% of the territory previously seized in Iraq and Syria, it remains a potential threat to the United States, said the document.
