Shift conventional defense of Europe to allies and reduce US forces there
What the document says“Transform NATO so that U.S. allies are capable of fielding the great majority of the conventional forces required to deter Russia”
The chapter says allies must take far greater responsibility for their conventional defense, and proposes that European allies field the great majority of conventional forces needed to deter Russia while relying on the United States mainly for the nuclear deterrent and selected other capabilities, with a reduced American force posture in Europe. It also proposes enabling South Korea to lead its own conventional defense and sustaining support for Israel while Gulf partners take on their own air and missile defense.
What the document actually says“Transform NATO so that U.S. allies are capable of fielding the great majority of the conventional forces required to deter Russia”
Change NATO so allies supply most of the troops needed to hold off Russia.
NATO is a group of countries that defend each other. The book says Europe should supply most of the troops. The United States would keep its nuclear weapons there. It would send fewer soldiers.
Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. Executive Order 14268 makes allied burden sharing a test applied to arms transfers: the Secretary of Defense must ensure that transferring priority end items to priority partners advances the goal of allies meeting capability targets independently, without sustained support from the United States. That is a criterion for weapons sales. Nothing among the candidates changes American force posture in Europe or shifts the conventional defense of Europe onto European allies, and nothing addresses South Korea leading its own conventional defense or Gulf partners taking on their own air and missile defense. Executive Order 14186 points the other way on the last point, directing an increase in the provision of American missile defense capabilities to allies and partners. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.