The Pentagon has released a National Defense Strategy that chastises U.S. allies to take control of their own security and reasserts the Trump administration’s focus on dominance in the Western Hemisp ...
The new U.S. National Defense Strategy released by President Donald Trump’s administration is the first since 2022 and ...
The following is the 2026 U.S. National Defense Strategy. The document was released on Jan. 23, 2026. From the report Introduction President Trump in his first term and since reentering office in ...
The Trump administration’s calls to increase military spending will make it difficult to set US defense priorities straight.
The tone is unmistakable—and misplaced. Strategy documents are not campaign speeches, and they should not be party propaganda ...
The 2026 National Defense Strategy sets striking new priorities for the Pentagon—but can hardly be described as “isolationist ...
Trump’s new NDS calls the international order that has seen the U.S. advancing its values abroad a “cloud-castle abstraction.” That’s a 180-degree turn from the guiding principles of national defense ...
The Trump administration’s annual defense strategy report takes a softer tone toward China than in years past, calling for deterrence “through strength, not confrontation,” while focusing on threats ...
A new U.S. national defense strategy puts protection of the homeland and access to strategic terrain in the Western ...
On Friday, Jan. 23, the U.S. Department of Defense released its new National Defense Strategy, which describes how the ...
The U.S. Department of War released its 2026 National Defense Strategy (NDS) on January 23, 2026, laying out a defense ...