Key Highlights
- The strategy, released Friday evening, elevates homeland defense above all other missions, calling for expanded missile defense, counter-drone systems, cyber capabilities and long-range strike forces capable of launching decisive operations from U. S.
- soil.
- Pentagon planners describe a global threat environment that is faster, more dangerous and far less forgiving than in past decades."The Joint Force must be ready to deter and, if called upon, to prevail … including the ability to launch decisive operations against targets anywhere — including directly from the U. S.
- Homeland," the strategy states.
- "More direct military threats to the American Homeland have also grown in recent years, including nuclear threats as well as a variety of conventional strike and space, cyber, electromagnetic warfare capabilities," it adds.
