The recently launched National Defense Strategy (NDS-26) of the U.S. Department of War (DoW) claims that it wants peace, and to that end, U.S. Joint Forces should be ready to deter threats via effective homeland defense, while fighting and winning wars by an operational capacity that enables the U.S. to militarily intervene in even far-reaching areas directly from the homeland.
Operation Absolute Resolve (against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro) and Operation Midnight Hammer (against Iran during the 12-day war) are given as examples of such operative capability in the Defense Strategy. The NDS-26 takes this position of strength, mostly revealing the power of U.S. conventional forces, not only as an objective to be achieved but also as a given reality of the U.S. Armed Forces.
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