Pentagon, for the first time in decades, has no plans to release a Global Posture Review

The Pentagon has decided, for the first time in decades, it will not release its Global Posture Review of U.S. troop placements abroad.

The long-standing document has always laid out exact military priorities and where assets would be stationed worldwide, giving lawmakers and allies the only comprehensive public map of America’s global force footprint. Officials are instead limiting themselves to informal conversations, claiming existing strategy papers already spell out the shift toward the Western Hemisphere.

This break with precedent snubs Congress and NATO partners who depend on the review for budgeting, oversight, and long-term planning. Senate Armed Services Committee members from both parties say the absence leaves them unable to fulfill their responsibilities. Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) stated bluntly that forgoing the review “shows that this administration has no plans.”

NATO officials expressed deep frustration over the lack of predictability. One senior military source stressed, “We realize that we need to step up and take much more responsibility for our own security, and we are. But we need predictability.”

The decision fits a pattern in which the White House routinely informs allies and Congress of major actions only after they occur.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recently declared that future U.S. posture will be based “first and foremost on our own national security power projection.”