The new national defense strategy is a really big deal for a few reasons.
Like my colleagues Mara Karlin and Tom Wright, I am generally impressed by Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis's 2018 National Defense Strategy or NDS, which builds on the December 2017 National Security Strategy of President Donald Trump and sets out further guideposts for future defense planning.
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2018/01/21/on-the-2018-national-defense-strategy/
Should NATO be worried?
Britain’s national security risked being undermined by America who considered making Russia partners in the “Star Wars” missile defence shield because Boris Yeltsin was transforming the former Soviet Union into “permanent good guys”, newly released classified documents reveal.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/01/20/america-planned-bring-russia-cold-star-wars-project/
https://ru.krymr.com/a/28986920.html
https://www.svoboda.org/a/28987809.html
Британские оборонные расходы и военный потенциал являются главным объектом жесткой критики, в ходе которой часто заходит речь о потенциальной угрозе со стороны России — будь то обрыв интернет-кабелей, проходящих по дну океана, отправка бомбардировщиков в наше воздушное пространство или вторжение на территорию стран НАТО.
http://inosmi.ru/politic/20180121/241237753.html