Military leaders voice concern over Hegseth’s new Pentagon strategy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/09/29/hegseth-national-defense-strategy-trump-dissent/
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Military leaders voice concern over Hegseth’s new Pentagon strategy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/09/29/hegseth-national-defense-strategy-trump-dissent/
Posted by colepercy120
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Submission Statement: Military leaders in the Pentagon are voicing concern over the administration’s new defense priorities. which includes drawdowns across the board and refocusing America to defend Taiwan and secure the hemisphere, with less focus on the long-standing alliances in Europe. While there is no plan to pull out of the alliances in Europe, it is clear that the Middle East is going to see significant cuts to us forces, with the administration telling generals to “assume risk” outside of the main focus area of Taiwan and the Americas
It’s paywalled and I’ve already used my free article, so I’m gonna go based on OP’s summary:
A Pacific Pivot, as far as I understand, has been something the US has been focusing on since Obama. Marine Force 2030 started long before Hegseth took office. I think it does make sense for the US to reduce focusing on the Middle East.
A pivot away from Europe makes sense – **to a certain extent**. Maintaining NATO and that alliance structure is critical, but at the same time, the EU has a GDP 10x the size of Russia and a population 3x as large. The EU needs to pull more weight in this alliance structure and all things being considered, should have a military industrial base capable of supporting Ukraine without being so dependent on the US.
If we were to look at a hypothetical scenario of stronger ties between say, Russia, Iran, China, North Korea, then each player in the alliance structure needs to play their own role, with the EU being able to mostly handle Russia on their own.
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