From your referenced article :
The shift “doesn’t seem aligned with President Trump’s hawkish views on China at all,”
It’s good that we are filling a gap by placing focus on the homeland. But that doesn’t mean we are abandoning allies or throwing out the concept which has been in place since WWII that we ignore the rise of tyrants in other parts of the world at our peril.
This ‘draft’ paper article says nothing about abandoning that strategy. Only that an area previously thought to not need emphasis now needs it.
Ill leave it there until we see the final copy of the NSS after Hegseth and the president have had their chance to redline it.
“...since WWII that we ignore the rise of tyrants in other parts of the world at our peril.”
Running all around the world looking for Monsters to Destroy is why the USA has overstretched itself, and is in such decline.
There has been different leaks from different publications on this. We will see what the final product looks like.
But all the Boomer Bravado and nostalgia in the world can’t overshadow the fact that the USA is now a tiny fraction of China industrial and military production capacity.