{"id":40743,"date":"2026-01-24T12:34:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T06:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=40743"},"modified":"2026-01-24T12:34:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T06:49:50","slug":"trump-administrations-defense-strategy-tells-allies-to-handle-their-own-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/trump-administrations-defense-strategy-tells-allies-to-handle-their-own-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration\u2019s defense strategy tells allies to handle their own security"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>The Pentagon released a priority-shifting National Defense Strategy late Friday that chastised U.S. allies to take control of their own security and reasserted the Trump administration\u2019s focus on dominance in the Western Hemisphere above a longtime goal of countering China.<\/p>\n<p>The 34-page document, the first since 2022, was highly political for a military blueprint, criticizing partners from Europe to Asia for relying on previous U.S. administrations to subsidize their defense. It called for \u201ca sharp shift \u2014 in approach, focus, and tone.\u201d That translated to a blunt assessment that allies would take on more of the burden countering nations from Russia to North Korea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor too long, the U.S. Government neglected \u2014 even rejected \u2014 putting Americans and their concrete interests first,\u201d read the opening sentence.<\/p>\n<p>It capped off a week of animosity between President Donald Trump\u2019s administration and traditional allies like Europe, with Trump threatening to impose tariffs on some European partners to press a bid to acquire Greenland before announcing a deal that lowered the temperature.<\/p>\n<p>As allies confront what some see as a hostile attitude from the U.S., they will almost certainly be unhappy to see that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth\u2019s department will provide \u201ccredible options to guarantee U.S. military and commercial access to key terrain,\u201d especially Greenland and the Panama Canal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon released a priority-shifting National Defense Strategy late Friday that chastised U.S. allies to take control of their own security and reasserted the Trump administration\u2019s focus on dominance in the Western Hemisphere above a longtime goal of countering China. The 34-page document, the first since 2022, was highly political for a military blueprint, criticizing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40743"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40743"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40745,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40743\/revisions\/40745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}