The Pentagon has apparently decided that it won’t be releasing its Global Posture Review—it may not even be producing one—a document, like the other national security policy documents, provides a window into an administration’s intentions. Among other things, it helps inform Congress in the process of developing the annual defense authorization bill, in this case, regarding the posturing of U.S. forces overseas. Instead, reported Politico, “the department’s decision to buck precedent underscores the go-it-alone pattern of this White House. Its officials have regularly informed allies and Congress of military actions only after they have occurred—from boat strikes in the Caribbean to attacks on Iran.”
Officials are instead opting to hold more informal conversations, according to four U.S. and NATO defense officials and three European diplomats, who say the administration believes it has provided enough information in strategy documents that point to a shifted focus on the Western Hemisphere.
Elbridge Colby, the U.S. Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, already told the Senate Armed Services Committee during a March 3 hearing that the administration was unlikely to do a nuclear posture review as the NPR from the first Trump administration “was very good.”
