Mayor Giuliani will announce a new four-point war strategy in New Hampshire today, an effort to refocus a primary campaign season for Republicans that has centered in recent weeks less on foreign affairs and more on immigration and domestic issues.
Specifically, Mr. Giuliani will call for a new military surge in Afghanistan, a change in the way America's spies are promoted so that officers are rewarded for finding actionable intelligence and not just the number of agents they recruit, and a new war on Al Qaeda's intricate network of Web sites, sites used both to communicate with its agents in the field and to recruit new jihadis.
As Republican voters have changed the conversation, Mr. Giuliani's campaign has dipped in the national polls and has pulled out of Iowa's first in the nation caucuses scheduled for tomorrow. Instead, Mr. Giuliani has focused his efforts on winning in Florida and South Carolina, and will be campaigning for a respectable showing in the first primary in New Hampshire.
Mr. Giuliani's new proposal also comes as President Bush heads to Jerusalem this week for his first trip there as president, and as the White House comes to grips with the crisis in Pakistan after the assassination of the country's former premier, Benazir Bhutto.
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