January 30, 2026 | Foreign Podicy

The National Defense Strategy and the Threats That Matter Most

Clifford D. May

Founder & President
RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery

CCTI Senior Director and Senior Fellow
Bradley Bowman

CMPP Senior Director
January 30, 2026 Foreign Podicy

The National Defense Strategy and the Threats That Matter Most

Clifford D. May

Founder & President
RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery

CCTI Senior Director and Senior Fellow
Bradley Bowman

CMPP Senior Director

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The U.S. Department of War has released its 2026 National Defense Strategy (NDS). It is meant to explain how the Pentagon plans to correlate ends, ways, and means to protect the nation militarily. To dig more deeply into the document and the thinking behind it, host Cliff May is joined by FDD CMPP’s Bradley Bowman and FDD CCTI’s RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery.

Read Brad and Mark’s op-ed for Real Clear Defense here: What Trump’s National Defense Strategy Gets Right — and Wrong