What Happened
Western Hemisphere Takes Center Stage Amid Shift In Global Focus
The Pentagon has released its new National Defense Strategy, which prioritizes the defense of the US homeland above the Indo-Pacific region. The document, which was released with little fanfare, calls the Western Hemisphere a neglected region and emphasizes the need for greater burden sharing from allies and investments in the defense industrial base. The strategy also denies a push towards isolationism, despite the increased focus on regional security. The release of the NDS comes weeks after the White House published its National Security Strategy, which also focuses on the Western Hemisphere. This was first reported by Breaking Defense.