{"id":28911,"date":"2026-03-17T20:13:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T01:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuevademocracia.com.co\/?p=28911"},"modified":"2026-03-27T22:54:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T03:54:18","slug":"times-of-war-analysis-of-the-new-security-strategy-of-u-s-imperialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuevademocracia.com.co\/?p=28911","title":{"rendered":"Times of War: Analysis of the New Security Strategy of U.S. Imperialism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"975\" height=\"529\" src=\"https:\/\/nuevademocracia.com.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nuevademocracia.com.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-2.png 975w, https:\/\/nuevademocracia.com.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-2-300x163.png 300w, https:\/\/nuevademocracia.com.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-2-768x417.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 975px) 100vw, 975px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-e1f7c952c4870d0acf46854312363776 wp-block-paragraph\">The publication of the National Security Strategy (NSS) of November 2025 and its military complement, the National Defense Strategy (NDS) of January 2026, constitutes the explicit declaration of the war plans and restructuring of U.S. imperialism at a critical juncture of relative decline and systemic crisis. This strategy, without disguise, defines the main enemy in the defense of its hegemony and the dispute over the division of the world\u2014China; establishes the main theater of a future war\u2014the Indo-Pacific; secures the rear\u2014the Western Hemisphere; demands vassalage from the \u201callied\u201d imperialist powers of Europe and Asia; and seeks a reorganization of the domestic economy based on reindustrialization and military production, and of domestic politics based on combating the internal enemy on the road to fascism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-c875e0f87588efa3c9028cb82f21d416 wp-block-paragraph\">One must read beyond the political rhetoric of Trump, who shifts the blame onto his predecessors for squandering the hegemonic position of the United States, wasting resources, and placing the interests of the world and the principles of democracy above those of the United States. Imperialism is not an aggressive political choice adopted by some \u201crich\u201d and \u201cstrong\u201d countries led by greedy figures seeking to dominate \u201cpoor\u201d and \u201cweak\u201d countries. Imperialism is the necessary result of the concentration of production and monopolistic and financial capital, the highest stage of capitalism whose main political feature is the division of the world into a handful of powerful countries that divide the world among themselves to extract superprofits, and a majority of poor and oppressed countries. Inherently, this economic system based on exploitation and on the dispute over territories and resources leads to crises, and U.S. imperialism, as the world hegemonic power, stands at the epicenter of this crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-61cf38d67ac772823deca51e3d01c0bc wp-block-paragraph\">Its economy is increasingly parasitic: manufacturing has lost 6.5 million jobs since 1979, its share of GDP has been reduced by more than half, and the manufacturing trade deficit reaches $1 trillion annually<a href=\"#sdendnote1sym\" id=\"sdendnote1anc\"><sup>i<\/sup><\/a>. The data on U.S. mineral dependence speaks for itself: from 1954 to 2019, the number of minerals for which the United States relies on imports for at least 25% of its needs increased from 21 to 58<a href=\"#sdendnote2sym\" id=\"sdendnote2anc\"><sup>ii<\/sup><\/a> . This is no coincidence, but rather the result of decades of deindustrialization and the outsourcing of production, driven by the very logic of monopoly capital in pursuit of higher rates of profit. The U.S. economy is becoming increasingly parasitic and less productive, leading to logistical problems and supply crises. On the fiscal front, public debt will reach 156% of GDP by 2055 according to the U.S. Congressional Budget Office (CBO), and could reach 250% if tax cuts are extended. The United States is the country with the highest public debt in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-0a727a88bef134500d80b71d15086884 wp-block-paragraph\">Militarily, the Pentagon admits it lacks the capacity to command multi-corps operations<a href=\"#sdendnote3sym\" id=\"sdendnote3anc\"><sup>iii<\/sup><\/a>, that it would need to double the army to cover the brigade deficit, and that transatlantic reinforcement lines are vulnerable. Demographically, the population will begin to decline in 2033 without immigration<a href=\"#sdendnote4sym\" id=\"sdendnote4anc\"><sup>iv<\/sup><\/a>. Between 2022 and 2024, the U.S. Armed Forces spent more than $6 billion on recruitment and retention programs, according to the Associated Press, yet failed to meet recruitment goals. In 2023, the U.S. military had the lowest number of service members since before World War II and reported a substantial deficit in meeting recruitment targets, with approximately 41,000 recruits missing across its branches, according to official sources from the U.S. Department of Defense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-09d0131588ac1be484cb596ed1a67e0b wp-block-paragraph\">A general crisis of the imperialist system and a decline in U.S. global hegemony are the underlying problems, which explain Trump\u2019s bossy character and the justification for his National Security and Defense Strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2e8ffd5f98c72e77a4c2b945531f8709 wp-block-paragraph\">The United States emerged as an imperialist power in the early 20th century and competed with the European powers for control of oppressed countries, displacing them from Latin America and establishing itself as a regional power. After World War II, with the European powers in decline, the United States and the Soviet Union\u2014which had become a social-imperialist power after socialism ended there and capitalism was restored under Nikita Khrushchev\u2014consolidated themselves as the world\u2019s two superpowers, each with its own spheres of influence and nuclear capabilities. Today, they possess eight times more nuclear warheads than the next-largest nuclear-armed imperialist power, China. Following the Cold War and the implosion of the Soviet Union in 1991, the United States became the sole hegemonic superpower. Over the past three decades, successive administrations, whether Democratic or Republican, have sought to consolidate and expand this hegemony, attempting to \u201csteal\u201d other powers\u2019 spheres of influence. Thus, the Middle East became the main battlefield: for control of oil, to displace European powers and Russia from the region, and for dominance over the land connecting the Asian, European, and African continents. Every war the United States has waged was fought for its hegemonic interests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-88fda2cfa029a72aa843c5c9a7afc64a wp-block-paragraph\">Therefore, when the National Defense Strategy states that the U.S. will \u201cno longer be distracted by interventionism, endless wars, regime change, and nation-building,\u201d it must be read as an admission of defeat. The NDS reveals that the U.S. strategy is to withdraw from the Middle East\u2014an attempt that dates back to Obama\u2014reducing its objective in the region to achieving stability and \u201cnormalization.\u201d This means they failed to establish bases or consolidate power. Except for the Zionist entity of Israel, it can be said that the United States today counts fewer client governments in the region than at the beginning of its decades of war, and it accumulates growing disrepute among the Arab masses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5bad06143b69fe7eae35549d5dd6d530 wp-block-paragraph\">However, this strategic retreat from the Middle East does not mean that U.S. imperialism has abandoned the region or renounced the use of force. The war against Iran must be understood within this same logic. Washington seeks to close the Middle Eastern front in order to concentrate its forces on the principal contradiction of the current imperialist system\u2014the dispute with China in the Indo-Pacific\u2014but it attempts to do so while leaving behind new conditions of equilibrium favorable to its interests. The attacks against Iran, initiated on February 28, 2026 together with Israel, are based on the calculation that it is possible to decisively weaken the Iranian state, limit its regional influence, and force a correlation of forces that guarantees the stability necessary for the United States\u2019 strategic withdrawal. However, this operation also reveals the limits of imperialism in its current phase, and it may well backfire. Far from quickly resolving the problem, the United States risks becoming bogged down in a costly war that consumes military, political, and economic resources, reproducing the same dynamic of attrition that characterized its interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-palette-color-2-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-288708ff2b2995c42915d2d25b3c41eb\">Strategic Retreat and the Fortification of the Rear<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-eaaee189a5f47dafb77ae7c9d720e880 wp-block-paragraph\">In classical military thought, a strong army advances and opens new war fronts; when it enters crisis, it closes fronts, consolidates positions, and fortifies supply lines. Late Rome stopped expanding and turned cities into fortresses. The Spanish empire of the 17th century shifted from conquest to protecting the silver route. Germany in 1944 prioritized maintaining railway lines over launching offensives. The United States follows the same logic today: \u201cthe war in Ukraine must end,\u201d \u201cthe days when the Middle East dominated U.S. foreign policy, both in long-term planning and day-to-day execution, have fortunately ended,\u201d \u201cafter years of neglect, the United States will reaffirm and enforce the Monroe Doctrine to restore American preeminence in the Western Hemisphere, and to protect our homeland and our access to key geographies throughout the region. We will deny non-hemispheric competitors the ability to position forces or other threatening capabilities, or to possess or control strategically vital assets, in our Hemisphere.\u201d The NDS specifies: \u201cWe will guarantee U.S. military and commercial access to key zones, particularly the Panama Canal, the Gulf of America, and Greenland.\u201d This is the \u201cTrump corollary\u201d to the Monroe Doctrine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d127fb4c240174acb7f2214020f758ba wp-block-paragraph\">The invasion of Venezuela and the kidnapping of President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro on January 3, 2026, after 19 weeks of military siege that had left 105 killings (today already 144) under false accusations of drug trafficking, is not an isolated event: it is the first bullet of this doctrine. The objective is not only or primarily Venezuelan oil, but to send a message to the entire region: the era of \u201cnegligence\u201d has ended and strict obedience is the only option. The effectiveness of this policy of intimidation is evident in the rapid domestication of neighboring governments. Mexico, under pressure, has cut oil supplies to Cuba. Panama, yielding to Washington\u2019s demands, has declared invalid the agreements with China regarding the Canal, surrendering strategic sovereignty. In Colombia, the government has agreed with the U.S. on a military offensive against \u201cnarco-terrorism\u201d which in practice mainly translates into an intensification of the siege against guerrillas that still maintain armed struggle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-39bf3fb722b67f09ad3db51f4d476077 wp-block-paragraph\">But the history of Latin America is not written only with the capitulation of its governments. On the shoulders of its peoples rests a long and combative anti-imperialist tradition that no decree or bombardment will extinguish. The domestication of governments is not the defeat of the peoples; it is confirmation that the struggle must deepen through other channels, and that anti-imperialist resistance in Latin America will continue to be, as it always has been, a task of the masses, not of their treacherous elites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-palette-color-2-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-cf64a322dae4e5a2151c1d7254d06a62\">The Main Theater of the Future Great War<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-67291d40813ca065b04169145bcad097 wp-block-paragraph\">The National Defense Strategy states it plainly: \u201cThe Indo-Pacific region will soon represent more than half of the world economy. Therefore, the security, freedom, and prosperity of the American people are directly related to our ability to trade and engage from a position of strength in the region. If China were to dominate this vast and crucial region, it would be able to effectively block American access to the world\u2019s economic center of gravity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-132986145aff79fe34793d657021c731 wp-block-paragraph\">To understand the essence of this strategy it must be read in light of history and the law of uneven development of imperialism. During the Cold War, the United States needed to approach China to concentrate its forces against the Soviet Union, taking advantage of its cheap\u2014superexploited\u2014labor and avoiding dividing its forces against other powers. When it became the sole hegemonic superpower after the Soviet implosion, it maintained this relationship of collusion with China to focus on laying the foundations of its dominance in the Middle East. But imperialist powers, including China, do not renounce their nature: China consolidated itself as a regional power and today is the one that most threatens U.S. hegemony. This is the inevitable consequence of inter-imperialist competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5cddc6d4c8607993fff340f3ea472643 wp-block-paragraph\">China, as a rising power, could not be satisfied with the subordinate role that the U.S. had assigned to it. The current crisis is therefore the result of the struggle over the division of a world already divided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3148318a05d216fa85806eaae9855ef3 wp-block-paragraph\">To contain it, the United States intends to militarily fortify the First Island Chain\u2014a barrier stretching from Japan to the Philippines\u2014with the aim of confining the Chinese Navy to the inner Asian seas and denying it access to the open Pacific. Taiwan is a key geographical piece that allows for opening or closing the passage to the Second Island Chain, which would serve as a rear base from which to deploy long-range weaponry. The strategy acknowledges that it cannot sustain this encirclement on its own, so it demands that its regional allies, Japan and Australia, assume the cost and risk of serving as the first line of defense. It imposes greater subjugation on the oppressed countries in the region, as evidenced by the establishment of new bases in the Philippines and the conduct of military exercises at strategic points such as the Luzon Strait. With regard to India, the United States is \u201ccooperating\u201d to strengthen its military, modernizing its armed forces and conducting joint exercises, as India, with its billion-strong population, is undoubtedly the U.S.\u2019s preferred cannon fodder for a confrontation with China. In the May 2025 confrontation, following an attack in Kashmir, this new alignment was evident: the U.S. offered firm backing to India, while China led public support for Pakistan. Any narrative of defending democracy and Taiwan\u2019s \u201csovereignty\u201d falls apart, as the NSS acknowledges this by noting that \u201cTaiwan offers direct access to the Second Island Chain.\u201d The island is viewed by the Pentagon as an unsinkable aircraft carrier that must be denied to China, or alternatively, used as a bargaining chip in a grand pact that guarantees \u201cstrategic stability\u201d\u2014that is, the division of spheres of influence at the expense of the peoples of the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-palette-color-2-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-e0b4aa4638e2de054cf92e194edec878\"><strong>Stirring up the \u2018allies\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-97abea60c5c46e01f6e3572656c0526e wp-block-paragraph\">Washington is demanding that its allies\u2014especially the Europeans\u2014take primary responsibility for their own defense and increase their military spending to 5% of their GDP, as they pledged at the Hague summit. The relationship it proposes is openly transactional: the allies must do their part, align their exports with U.S. controls, and accept a subordinate role in the new security architecture. But these allies, caught between the polarization of the U.S., China, and Russia, have no choice for now but to grovel before the emperor, as any attempt at real autonomy clashes with their military and economic dependence. However, this does not mean they are giving up their own imperialist ambitions. While bowing to Washington, the European imperialist states\u2014France, the United Kingdom, Germany, etc.\u2014are launching their own initiatives. They are exploiting the \u201cRussian threat,\u201d fueled by increasingly frequent drone incidents in Poland, Romania, and Denmark, to escalate their militarization and increase their military presence in northern, central, and southeastern Europe, subjugating the oppressed nations in this region. At the same time, they seek to establish or reinforce their own spheres of influence in other regions, such as the Middle East, quietly betting on a possible U.S. defeat that would open up room for them to maneuver. This dual nature\u2014forced submission in the immediate term and strategic expansionist opportunism\u2014defines these middle powers, which orbit the U.S. empire but dream of becoming the main butchers themselves, even though all of them are also immersed in their own process of decline, with stagnant economies and growing social unrest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-e9e42c7cbf74f198df0689aa320fe81f wp-block-paragraph\">The case of Greenland reveals the hypocrisy and brutality of one of these intermediate powers: Denmark. While Copenhagen presents itself to the world as a defender of human rights and self-determination, its history as a colonial power over Greenland is written in blood, exploitation, and crimes against humanity. For decades, Danish imperialism subjected the Inuit people to a systematic policy of demographic extermination and social control. In the 1960s and 1970s, Danish authorities implemented measures as part of a state-sponsored campaign to reduce the birth rate and \u201cmodernize\u201d the colony. This \u201cIUD Campaign\u201d affected approximately half of Greenland\u2019s fertile women, causing permanent damage, infertility, and trauma that persists to this day. The goal was clear: to prevent the growth of the Inuit population from hindering Danish plans for economic exploitation and military control over the island. For more than three centuries, Denmark has colonized Greenland, imposing its language, religion, and culture, while despising its inhabitants and considering them \u201csubhuman.\u201d Today, in the face of Trump\u2019s threats, the Danish government is rushing to send troops and assert its \u201csovereignty\u201d over the island, yet refuses to include Greenlandic representatives in negotiations regarding their own future. Denmark is not an innocent minor ally; it is a full-fledged colonial power that, while groveling before Washington, seeks to perpetuate its domination over a people it has subjugated for centuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-palette-color-2-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-aaf4a865dfd05409608e1e2228198c8b\"><strong>Economic restructuring at home and the groundwork for fascism<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a67bd1f4c99b43b68a9df54b43056655 wp-block-paragraph\">The National Security Strategy speaks of \u201creindustrialization,\u201d of \u201crestoring the defense industrial base,\u201d of a \u201cnational mobilization.\u201d The restructuring plan pushed by Trump promotes an aggressive tariff strategy to force industrial resurgence, the mobilization of the defense industrial base as the engine of reindustrialization\u2014with over $300 billion in arms sales\u2014and the demand that contractors like Lockheed Martin reinvest in productive capacity rather than buy back shares; and the reengineering of the global financial system through the implementation of the so-called \u201cMar-a-Lago Agreement,\u201d which seeks to devalue the dollar to make U.S. exports competitive, tax foreign investments in Treasury bonds, and force allies such as Japan to commit hundreds of billions in direct industrial investment on U.S. soil. Among other measures, the U.S. government seeks to avert a new recession, which analysts constantly warn is breathing down its neck. However, all these measures serve to deepen the exploitation of the working class; the economy is becoming increasingly unequal, with the richest 20% of households accounting for more than half of national consumption, while the rest of the population faces persistent decline. According to the Bank of America Institute, nearly a quarter of households live paycheck to paycheck, spending more than 95% of their income on basic necessities with no ability to save.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3c8e18c9ddd6ebcc0fcafcf8ca45d47b wp-block-paragraph\">But this mobilization of the industrial base does not occur in a social vacuum. It needs to align the American working class behind the interests of monopoly capital, replace class struggle with warmongering chauvinism, and prepare society to bear the burdens of a prolonged war: more exploitation, fewer freedoms, and despotic discipline. In this scheme, the persecution of immigrants serves a multifaceted and perfectly calculated function. On the one hand, it seeks to pit one section of the proletariat\u2014the native-born\u2014against the other, the immigrant, using chauvinism as a key tool to prevent class unity and win over the backward sectors and the labor aristocracy to the ideology of the far right, racism, and white supremacy. But there is an additional objective, equally crucial to the reindustrialization project: the creation of an army of super-exploited migrant workers, without rights and mired in constant fear of deportation, who are forced to accept the harshest working conditions, the lowest wages, and a total absence of union protection. On the other hand, Trump is betting on the destabilization of the constitutional order to impose an unprecedented absolutist presidentialism, not only vis-\u00e0-vis the other branches of government, but also with respect to the states and electoral contenders. The proof of this political calculation is evident: states governed by the Republican mafia, which have the largest immigrant populations, do not face anti-immigrant police operations with the same intensity as states controlled by the Democratic mafia, revealing that persecution is a tool of selective terror and internal domination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-cbdffb0488a791ecce2623c1e285b890 wp-block-paragraph\">This economic and political restructuring is projected onto its \u201cbackyard,\u201d Latin America and the Caribbean. Ensuring preferential access to the strategic minerals needed to compete with China in green technologies and defense. The recent signing of a cooperation framework with Argentina to strengthen supply chains for critical minerals, or the shift by the new Bolivian government as it courtingly seeks U.S. financial assistance and investment in its lithium, are expressions of this new offensive. On the other hand, the aim is to reconfigure the continent\u2019s industrial map under the logic of \u201cfriendshoring\u201d\u2014or the relocation of production to allied countries\u2014using the USMCA as a weapon. More than 80% of Mexico\u2019s exports depend on the USMCA, and Washington has already threatened to let it expire or renegotiate it in 2026 to force additional concessions. This scheme, at its core, seeks to deepen the exploitation of the region\u2019s semi-colonies\u2014their status as docile appendages of the U.S. productive machinery\u2014so that it is the oppressed countries of the continent that pay, with their resources and sovereignty, the cost of the crisis in the North.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-palette-color-2-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-2651224f89de01f43de2571b1a1d2e7a\"><strong>The Resistance of the Masses, the Anti-Imperialist Struggle; Preparing for a Prolonged Struggle<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-83722bf991ab78afe46d72f0fc723ca5 wp-block-paragraph\">But where there is oppression, there is resistance. The Carnegie Endowment\u2019s Global Protest Monitor states that \u201clarge-scale, highly political anti-government protests are multiplying in various regions.\u201d In the last 12 months, more than 142 significant anti-government protests have occurred, many of them lasting for days or even months. These are clearly spontaneous outbursts of the masses that mark the development of the revolutionary situation throughout the world, albeit unevenly. This wave of popular uprisings is no coincidence: it is the inevitable response to the general crisis of imperialism, to super-exploitation, and to war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6245d6f11963db00e36fa045df9b2c77 wp-block-paragraph\">The dialectic of imperialism as a \u201cgiant with feet of clay\u201d is laid bare when its true nature is examined. On the one hand, it presents itself as an all-powerful creature, acts like a titan, and participates directly or indirectly in all world events. But this apparent strength hides a fundamental weakness: its power is parasitic, depending entirely on the exploitation of the peoples. That is why, when confronted by revolutionarily organized peoples, it reveals that it is sinking ever deeper into the mud generated by its own feet. It may bomb Caracas and kidnap presidents, but it is hardly capable of sustaining prolonged wars against the collective will of those who resist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-c2f2d6bea36abbcfd60067726907b1c2 wp-block-paragraph\">Imperialism has invested disproportionately in state-of-the-art weaponry and global projection\u2014$13 billion aircraft carriers, fifth-generation fighter jets, hypersonic missile systems\u2014but has neglected the ground forces necessary to seize and hold territory. This is the military manifestation of the law of uneven development and the decay of monopoly capitalism: an armed force hypertrophied in technology but anemic in its capacity for occupation and territorial control. Hence the analysis by U.S. Lieutenant Colonel Jared W. Nichols, chief of planning at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center (JMRC) in Germany, who, in his assessment of the war in Ukraine, states that \u201can aircraft carrier cannot capture and hold ground\u201d<a href=\"#sdendnote5sym\" id=\"sdendnote5anc\"><sup>v<\/sup><\/a> . Along the same lines, Major Brandon J. Schwartz of the Combined Arms Doctrine Directorate warns that transatlantic reinforcement lines are vulnerable, that the U.S. military structure is not prepared to command operations involving multiple army corps, and that it lacks the ground units decisive for battle<a href=\"#sdendnote6sym\" id=\"sdendnote6anc\"><sup>vi<\/sup><\/a> . \u201cFortress America\u201d is, therefore, a myth that the peoples of the world must expose and defeat, battle by battle. The intensification of the inter-imperialist conflict demonstrates that there are no permanent blocs or allies, but rather the unbridled division of the spoils among bloodthirsty powers. This strategic fragility of imperialism opens up an opportunity, but it also demands that the peoples remain vigilant so as not to lose their autonomy by subordinating themselves to one imperialist power or another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-38d73c93f5b322bbf2fb738ea508a55c wp-block-paragraph\">The situation demands that revolutionaries prepare to steer the storms that are already underway. We must break with the illusion of \u201ctimes of peace\u201d and prepare ourselves subjectively and objectively for times of revolutionary storms. Historical experience is instructive: Hitler was not the cause of World War II, but the political expression of the needs of German monopoly capital in crisis. Likewise, Trump is not the cause of current imperialist aggression, but its necessary manifestation in the current phase of the system\u2019s decomposition. The alternative is not to choose between one imperialist pole or another\u2014between Yankee despotism, Chinese social-imperialism, or decaying European \u201csocial democracy\u201d\u2014between Milei\u2019s chainsaw and Petro\u2019s submission cloaked in anti-imperialist rhetoric. The only real alternative for the oppressed peoples of the world, such as Colombia, is the New Democratic Revolution toward Socialism. The old order rests on shifting sands; its collapse is a matter of time and revolutionary organization. The masses are already on the move; the task is to provide them with conscious leadership, a revolutionary program, and a strategy of struggle to turn the storms into revolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-e62d79146b0fa1744f56cadf657da2b4 wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#sdendnote1anc\" id=\"sdendnote1sym\">i<\/a> U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-f9cc67e261742d1c5c41ee6424629691 wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#sdendnote2anc\" id=\"sdendnote2sym\">ii<\/a>MILITARY REVIEW\u2014official journal of the U.S. Armed Forces. January\u2013February 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6254968b46987f26ed950a37b413c080 wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#sdendnote3anc\" id=\"sdendnote3sym\">iii<\/a>Schwartz, B. J. (2025). A Critical Link: The Field Army and Command and Control in LSCO. Military Review, U.S. Army Combined Arms Center<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-21f97265e73ac346aa98097543f01d5c wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#sdendnote4anc\" id=\"sdendnote4sym\">iv<\/a>. Cohen, Rachel. \u201cTop Air Force Recruiter Predicts Shortage of Maintenance and Security Personnel.\u201d Air Force Times, April 7, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-8a6ebc48f77c81ff826c9eb29046b050 wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#sdendnote5anc\" id=\"sdendnote5sym\">v<\/a>. Nichols, J. W. (2025). Meeting Mass with Mass: Why NATO Matters to the U.S. Army. Military Review, 105(6).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-b2deb5a89dc279c469a211aab9086ab9 wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#sdendnote6anc\" id=\"sdendnote6sym\">vi<\/a>. Schwartz, B. J. (2025). A Critical Link: The Field Army and Command and Control in Large-Scale Combat Operations (LSCO). Military Review, 105(5).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The publication of the National Security Strategy (NSS) of November 2025 and its military complement, the National Defense Strategy (NDS) of January 2026, constitutes the explicit declaration of the war plans and restructuring of U.S. imperialism at a critical juncture of relative decline and systemic crisis. 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