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U.S. Defense Strategy Shifts Focus to China, Than Allies

February 14, 2026 8:00 am

The United States will concentrate its military planning on defending its own territory and countering China’s influence in the Indo-Pacific while scaling back the scope of direct support offered to allies, according to a newly released Pentagon strategy that signals a substantial recalibration of American defense priorities.

The 2026 National Defense Strategy (NDS), outlines a shift toward homeland security and regional dominance in the Western Hemisphere, marking a departure from earlier Pentagon frameworks that placed greater emphasis on collective defense commitments and global threat competition.

The document states that as U.S. forces increasingly focus on domestic defense and the Indo-Pacific …

Call For Sack: Sylva’s Allies Fight Back

November 11, 2019 3:34 pm

Experts in the oil and gas sector, under the aegis Partner for Petroleum and Energy Sector Prosperity Initiative (P-PESPI), have condemned some of the negative reports by a civil society organisation, Accountable Leadership For Better Nigerian Initiative (ALBNI), which called for the sack of the Minister of State, Petroleum, Timipreye Sylva.

A press release made available to newsmen on Monday, signed by the chairman of the group, Charles Ibiang, said Sylva was quoted out of context, when the it was alleged that he was sabotaging the Federal Government by craving for a dialogue with international oil companies over payment arrears …