A nation unable to secure its own territory and hemisphere cannot project power effectively across oceans. That top priority—Homeland Defense—is not isolationism—it's strategic necessity. Cartels had infiltrated all of America’s 50 states, Chinese entities acquired farmland adjacent to nuclear missile sites and bomber bases, and Venezuelan criminal gangs controlled urban enclaves in sanctuary cities. Fentanyl flooding through an unsecured border claimed nearly 100,000 American lives annually—ten times the toll of the Global War on Terrorism. These weren't mere nuisances; they were undeclared acts of war.

Two months after President Trump’s September 5 Executive Order restored the title “Department of War,” the institution is being reborn. This is not symbolic. It signals a fundamental shift: America’s military is no longer organized around perpetual “defense” against vague threats in distant lands, but around defending the homeland by preparing to fight, and win, America’s wars.

In the wake of that shift, the results are already transforming America’s security posture. With the successful capture of Nicolás Maduro and the liberation of Venezuela through Operation Southern Spear, the U.S. military has demonstrated its renewed focus, not on abstract threats abroad, but on eliminating dangers that directly threaten the American homeland.

What comes next is the National War Strategy, the first document to carry that name since World War II. Unlike........

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