2026 U.S. National Defense Strategy
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.
Related papers from the Marathon Initiative:
Bridge Colby / DTRA – Sharing the Load: Developing Better Strategies for Burden Sharing
Robert Almelor Delfeld / Elbridge Colby: Broadening the Base: A Blueprint for Expanding Defense Industrial Capacity
Much to the disappointment of US President Donald Trump, on 10 October the Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Maria Corina Machado.
Michael Parenti called it the “Nobel Peace Prize for War.”
Related:
María Corina Machado is the female Javier Milei (aka US Puppet)
A suspected drug vessel reduced to wreckage by a missile that dwarfed it. No arrests, no evidence, just spectacle. Toxic masculinity masquerading as strategy. This wasn’t interdiction. It was theater.
VIDEO: U.S. Military Strikes Suspected Drug Vessel as Warships Gather in the Caribbean
Previously:
Since the election of Hugo Chávez in 1998 Washington has waged a relentless war against the Bolivarian revolution. The Trump administration continues to deploy political, economic and military measures aimed at the overthrow of Venezuela’s government and the reversal of advances in regional independence and integration: the two pillars of the Bolivarian cause. At the present juncture, it is critically important to make no mistake about Washington’s duplicitous policy towards the Maduro administration of simultaneous negotiation and intensifying aggression. This aggression is not a mere show to placate the Trump administration’s hard line anti-Chavista allies in Miami; it is an imminent threat to Venezuela’s national security and part of a strategy to recuperate U.S. domination of the Americas.
Washington’s Escalating War on Venezuela: Narco-Myths and Imperial Designs
H/T: Venezuela & ALBA News 8.18.2025
Related:
Is Trump 2.0 Planning to Invade Venezuela?
María Corina Machado is the female Javier Milei (aka US Puppet)
For 55-year-old U.S. Army veteran Sae Joon Park, this was the hardest moment of his life. Not getting shot in combat. Not the years battling post-traumatic stress disorder or addiction. Not prison. It was leaving the U.S., a country he called home for nearly five decades.
Purple Heart Army veteran self-deports after nearly 50 years in the U.S.
by Brian Berletic
During this year’s Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth laid out an alarming vision for the future of the Asia-Pacific region, a vision that includes the same type of U.S. military encroachment and confrontation that has turned Europe, North Africa and the Middle East into devastated battlegrounds over the past two decades.
The ‘Foreign Policy Consensus’ Is Alive and Well in Washington
by José Niño, Libertarian Institute
Brian Berletic, a former U.S. Marine now residing in Thailand, believes something bigger might be at play with Trump’s foreign policy agenda. The talk of foreign policy restraint vis-a-visa Russia is merely a facade. Berletic pointed out that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s “division of labor” framework during his February 2025 address in Brussels will only increase tensions with Russia.
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