2026 US National Defense Strategy
After the earlier publishing of the US National Security Strategy in 2025, the US National Defense Strategy has been published. Its’ main points:
Defend the U.S. Homeland.
Deter China in the Indo-Pacific Through Strength. Not Confrontation.
Increase Burden Sharing with US Allies and Partners.
Supercharge the U.S. Defense Industrial Base.
Under the title “Security Environment”
This Strategy is fundamentally different from the grandiose strategies of the past post–Cold War administrations, untethered as they were from a concrete focus on Americans’ practical interests. It does not conflate Americans’ interests with those of the rest of the world—that a threat to a person halfway around the world is the same as to an American. Nor does it see implanting our way of life by force as necessary. It does not seek to solve all the world’s problems. Rather, it focuses in practical ways on real, credible threats to Americans’ security, freedom, and prosperity. As it does so, it recognizes that some threats—like to our Homeland—are more direct and visceral than others. Yet it also acknowledges that even those that may feel distant—like the importance of maintaining U.S. access to the Indo-Pacific, the world’s largest market area—still have exceptionally real—indeed, fundamental—implications for our nation’s vital interests.
The Donroe Doctrine is detailed under the sub-heading “Homeland & Hemisphere”. Under the heading “China”:
the NSS directs DoW to maintain a favorable balance of military power in the IndoPacific. Not for purposes of dominating, humiliating, or strangling China. To the contrary, our goal is far more scoped and reasonable than that: It is simply to ensure that neither China nor anyone else can dominate us or our allies. This does not require regime change or some other existential struggle. Rather, a decent peace, on terms favorable to Americans but that China can also accept and live under, is possible. That is the wise premise of President Trump’s visionary and realistic approach to diplomacy with Beijing. At the same time, the Department’s efforts will provide the undergirding strength for this approach.
This is an acceptance of the strength of China, which the US oligarchy can no longer even dream of subjugating, and the need to co-exist somewhat amicably with it. Under the heading “Russia”:
the Department will ensure that U.S. forces are prepared to defend against Russian threats to the U.S. Homeland. The Department will also continue to play a vital role in NATO itself, even as we calibrate U.S. force posture and activities in the European theater to better account for the Russian threat to American interests as well as our allies’ own capabilities. Moscow is in no position to make a bid for European hegemony. European NATO dwarfs Russia in economic scale, population, and, thus, latent military power. At the same time, although Europe remains important, it has a smaller and decreasing share of global economic power. It follows that, although we are and will remain engaged in Europe, we must—and will—prioritize defending the U.S. Homeland and deterring China.
Placing the opposition to Russia firmly in the hands of the European vassals as the US focuses on China. Under the heading “Iran”,
Yet there are significant opportunities before us as well. Israel has long demonstrated that it is both willing and able to defend itself with critical but limited support from the United States. Israel is a model ally, and we have an opportunity now to further empower it to defend itself and promote our shared interests, building on President Trump’s historic efforts to secure peace in theMiddle East. Likewise, in the Gulf, U.S. partners are increasingly willing and able to do more to defend themselves against Iran and its proxies, including by acquiring and fielding a variety of U.S. military systems. This creates even more opportunities for us to enable individual partners to do more for their defense. It will also enable us to foster integration between regional partners, so that they can do even more together.
Yes, the utterly genocidal, supremacist, racist, and militarily aggressive Zionist regime is a “model ally”. Even here though, the US seeks to dump more and more responsibility onto Israel and the "“U.S. partners” in the region. Another acceptance of the shrinking relative strength of the US globally, and its inability to fund its previous expansive “global policeman” role. Under the heading “Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK)”:
The DPRK poses a direct military threat to the Republic of Korea (ROK) as well as to Japan, both of which are U.S. treaty allies. Although many of North Korea’s large conventional forces are aged or poorly maintained, South Korea must stay vigilant against the threat of a North Korean invasion. North Korea’s missile forces are also capable of striking targets in the ROK and Japan with conventional and nuclear weapons as well as other weapons of mass destruction. At the same time, the DPRK’s nuclear forces are increasingly capable of threatening the U.S. Homeland. These forces are growing in size and sophistication, and they present a clear and present danger of nuclear attack on the American Homeland.
The U.S. understands that it cannot attack North Korea because it actually has nuclear weapons (unlike Iran) and long range missile delivery systems. Also, both Russia and China are now integrating North Korea into BRINCISTAN. Accepting that the US is no longer able to fight wars in different theatres simultaneously, the section “The Simultaneity Problem And Implications for Allied Burden-Sharing”:
As President Trump has made clear, our allies and partners must shoulder their fair share of the burden of our collective defense. This is the right thing for them to do, especially after decades of the United States subsidizing their defense. But it is also vital from a strategic perspective—both for us and for them. And thanks to President Trump’s leadership, since January 2025, we have seen our allies beginning to step up, especially in Europe and South Korea.
In the next section “Strategy”, the sub-section “Defend The U.S. Homeland” lists these priorities:
Secure Our Border
Counter Narco-Terrorists in the Hemisphere
Yeah that’s why Trump pardoned one of the biggest narco-terrorists! The CIA is heavily involved as are some of Trump’s favourite leaders such as Noboa of Ecuador. More an excuse to interfere in other nation’s internal affairs.
Secure Key Terrain in the Western Hemisphere - i.e. Donroe Doctrine
Even as the Department works to secure America’s borders, we recognize that threats to those borders must also be addressed deeper in the hemisphere. We will therefore help to develop partners’ ability to degrade narcoterrorist organizations across the Americas and support them as they do, while also
maintaining our ability to take decisive action unilaterally. But if our partners cannot or will do not do their part, then we will be prepared to act decisively on our own, as the Joint Force demonstrated in Operation ABSOLUTE RESOLVE.
Defend America’s Skies with President Trump’s Golden Dome for America and Other, Drone-Specific Measures.
A new massive big trough for the Military Industrial Complex and Silicon Valley
Modernize and Adapt U.S. Nuclear Forces
Also a new big trough for the MIC etc.
Deter and Defend Against Cyber Threats.
Also a new big trough for the MIC etc.
Counter Islamic Terrorists.
What about Zionist terrorists, Christian terrorists etc? Aren’t these “Muslim” terrorists really creations of Western security services, Mossad, or really freedom fighters fighting against foreign aggression?
In the sub-section “Deter China in the Indo-Pacific Through Strength, Not Confrontation”:
We will not lose sight, however, of President Trump’s most important direction for the Department—peace through strength. Recognizing this, it is our essential responsibility at DoW to ensure that President Trump is always able to negotiate from a position of strength in order to sustain peace in the Indo-Pacific. To that end, as the NSS directs, we will build, posture, and sustain a strong denial defense along the FIC. We will also work closely with our allies and partners in the region to incentivize and enable them to do more for our collective defense, especially in ways that are relevant to an effective denial defense. Through these efforts, we will make clear that any attempt at aggression against U.S. interests will fail and is therefore not worth attempting in the first place. That is the essence of deterrence by denial.
This is the yapping of a smaller dog trying to show that it is bigger and stronger than it really is, an acceptance that the US will lose a war with China in the South China and Philippine seas.
In the sub-section “Increase Burden-Sharing with U.S. Allies and Partners” are a whole bunch of points talking about the U.S. dumping more responsibility for the maintenance of the US empire upon its vassals.
In the sub-section “Supercharge the U.S. Defense Industrial Base”, a whole bunch of B.S. covering up the throwing of gobs more money at the deeply corrupt, inefficient, incompetent, and profiteering U.S. MIC. And in the final conclusion section (my strikethroughs and replacements):
In doing so—as President Trump has so memorably emphasized—our purpose will not be aggression or perpetual war. Rather, our goal is peace a more affordable attempt to subjugate as much of the world as possible to U.S. oligarch profiteering. Peace U.S. oligarch dominance is the highest good. But not a peace U.S. oligarch dominance that sacrifices our other people’s security, freedoms, and prosperity. Rather, a peace U.S. oligarch dominance that Americans my oligarch masters deserve—a noble and proud peace. Fortunately, this peace is compatible with the interests of our potential opponents, if they keep their demands reasonable and cabined accept U.S. oligarch profiteering. We do not demand their humiliation or submission, as we nearly bankrupted the U.S. trying that. Rather, we demand only that they respect our reasonably conceived oligarch profiteering interests and some of those of our allies and partners vassals who stand stoutly with us. If we all can acknowledge this, we can achieve a flexible and sustainable balance of power among us, and peace accepting U.S. oligarch profiteering.