From the beginning of his first campaign for president in 2015, Donald Trump has presented himself as an unorthodox Republican on matters of the military, national security and foreign policy. His rejection of the GOP's foreign policy legacy has long been centered around vociferous criticism of the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, launched by President George W. Bush, which Trump has described as a disaster with no discernible benefit to the United States. Like so many of his claims, Trump's insistence that he opposed the war from the get-go is false, but he has certainly succeeded in reorienting the party's brand, if not always its actual record, away from aggressive overseas adventurism. His willingness to challenge once-hallowed notions about America's role in the world, however, has sometim

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