The United States Army has activated Western Hemisphere Command, which is the fusion of the Army’s North and South commands. It is, what I have been told, the beginning of a much larger reorganization underway by President Donald Trump’s Pentagon to reprioritize certain strategic commands and to deprioritize commands that have been deemed important for far too long. 

The creation of Western Hemispheric Command for the Army can—and should—be seen as a bureaucratic trial balloon floated by the Trump administration.

This all comes on the heels of the new National Security Strategy (NSS) memo that explains how—and why—the Trump administration will no longer emphasize defense of Eurasia, the Middle East, and even Africa at the expense of its own hemisphere. 

That document was

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