Defense, National Security and Foreign Policy

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JD Supra

The Fiscal Year 2026 National Defense Authorization Act: Where We Are And What’s Next

The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is the annual bill to authorize funding, policies and programs for the U.S. national security enterprise. The NDAA sets the topline defense budget with ...
The Hill

Trump’s National Defense Strategy document breaks new ground

The new U.S. National Defense Strategy, released last week, is fused with polemic. It asserts that the administration’s predecessors and the “foreign policy establishment … condemned our warfighters.” ...
The Conversation

The new National Defence Strategy feels written for a bygone era – and ignores the elephant in the room

Sometimes new government strategies really aren’t newsworthy. The 2026 National Defence Strategy (NDS) is like that. The biggest headline from the document is the additional defence spending of $53 ...
The Hill

The dangers of Trump’s National Defense Strategy

Last month, the Defense Department published its long-awaited National Defense Strategy, a practical guide published every four years to implement its broader National Security Strategy. This pair of ...
Defense One

National Defense Strategy ‘falls short’ on nuclear, space threat: SASC chair

Count the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee among the defense-policy experts who say the National Defense Strategy is inadequate in key ways. At a Thursday hearing, Sen. Roger Wicker, ...
The National Interest

Four Takeaways from Donald Trump’s National Defense Strategy

The 2026 National Defense Strategy sets striking new priorities for the Pentagon—but can hardly be described as “isolationist” in character. The latest in a family of documents detailing the Donald ...