US EditionTrump administration’s defense strategy tells allies to handle their own security
The Pentagon's 2026 strategy shifts focus to homeland and Western Hemisphere defense, urging allies to increase their security roles with more limited U.S. support, officials said.
- Late Friday, the Pentagon released a 34-page National Defense Strategy that reorients U.S. priorities toward dominance in the Western Hemisphere and is the first since 2022.
- Rooted in the administration's 'America First' philosophy, the strategy calls for a sharp shift as allies take more responsibility countering threats from Russia to North Korea, with South Korea leading deterrence.
- Amid a week of diplomatic friction, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's plan offers 'credible options' to secure U.S. access to Greenland and the Panama Canal, though Danish officials say formal Greenland talks have not begun.
- The strategy directs the Pentagon to recalibrate U.S. force posture in Europe, reducing troops on NATO's borders with Ukraine, while treating China as a power to deter and omitting Taiwan.
- Coming after a tense week that included a Davos clash with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, the strategy courts cooperation from neighbors from Canada to Central and South American partners and touts an operation ousting Nicolás Maduro earlier this month.
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The McDowell NewsDefense strategy pivots from allies, China
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon released a priority-shifting National Defense Strategy late Friday that chastised U.S. allies to take control of their own security and reasserted the Trump administration's focus on dominance in the Western Hemisphere above a longtime goal of…
Defense strategy tells allies to handle their own security
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon released a priority-shifting National Defense Strategy late Friday that chastised U.S. allies to take control of their own security and reasserted the Trump administration's focus on dominance in the Western Hemisphere above a longtime goal of…
In priority change, Pentagon tells allies to handle their own security
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon released a priority-shifting National Defense Strategy late Friday that chastised U.S. allies to take control of their own security and reasserted the Trump administration's focus on dominance in the Western Hemisphere above a longtime goal of…
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