James Holmes
The latest in a family of documents detailing the Donald Trump administration’s foreign-policy vision dropped late last month. And it is a doozy. The 2026 National Defense Strategy echoes the macro themes from its parent directive, the 2025 National Security Strategy. Where the National Security Strategy spells out basic principles guiding foreign policy and strategy, the National Defense Strategy explains in more concrete terms how the U.S. military apparatus intends to help put the administration’s vision into practice.
Doubtless some readers will find the strategy’s blunt tone jarring. It reflects the style favored by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and by the commander-in-chief himself. It even gave me, a practitioner of softly, softly diplomacy, pause. But the substance is solid, if arguable, the document is refreshingly short, and the writing gallops along. Read the whole thing. It repays the effort.
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