Obama’s naivete about the world is what has us in trouble. The advisors Obama picked would be a 180 from who Trump would pick. Trump knows the existential threats to us, Obama never had a clue. Amateur in world affairs? Remember a guy named Reagan?
Obama would first show his foreign policy cards when he asked Richard Luger to be his mentor. Then when he began his campaign he hired Colin Powell and Dan Shapiro as advisors and Shapiro has had key jobs under Obama. So most knew Obama's policies would be Realist/Pragmatist
Romney would announce his foreign policy advisory team in Sept/Oct 2011 and give a policy speech at the Citadel. Since they were Realists and NeoCons most could predict his foreign policy.
Jeb Bush earlier this year met with both NeoCon Paul Wolfowitz and Realist James Baker.
Most all of the candidates have said or done things that give clues.
Rubio and Walker lean NeoCon. Christie leans Realist. Rand Paul has tried to project himself as a Realist but the way he votes in committee indicates he is an isolationist and his father was an isolationist.
But that doesn't always pan out. George Bush ran as a Realist but became a NeoCon, until 2006 when he shifted to the Realists. Bush started with Scott Bremer(NeoCon) in Iraq then shifted to Petreaus, Allen, and Crocker(Realists). Obama would put these same 3 men in charge of Afghanistan in 2010.
Reagan was a NeoCon in his first term and a Realist in his second term.
Trump likes to talk vaguely but never says anything substantive, whether the subject is foreign policy, immigration, or trade.
Are you curious as to whether Trump would be a unilateralist or a multilateralist? A counter-insurgent or counter-terrorist?