America's Defense Begins In The Western Pacific, Not In San Diego

2025-09-11 03:14:58

(MENAFN- Asia Times) A recent article in Politico claims that the new US National Defense Strategy (NDS) currently being drafted at the War Department will downplay China as a major threat and place primary focus on homeland defense and hemispheric defense – think, Western hemisphere.

A truism,“Things are never as good as they seem, and never as bad as they seem,” is worth keeping in mind.

If earlier War Department statements are to be believed, China will get its due in the final defense strategy. And it is prudent both to defend the US homeland (which has in fact been under attack for decades) and to stop taking Western Hemisphere security for granted and pay some real attention.

But here's the problem:

Although the People's Republic of China (PRC) will continue to be recognized as a major threat, and deterring China in the Indo-Pacific as a major task, the final NDS – as a sort of tough love – will also stress that regional nations need to pull their weight, allowing the US to focus on hemispheric and homeland defense.

This resembles what the Trump Administration is doing in Europe – demanding that US allies do more to handle the Ukraine problem and Russian threats.

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