New Pentagon Leaks: This Time Hegseth Leaks Actual War Plans

Leaked strategic plan signed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reorients Pentagon priorities to Greenland, Panama and "everything in between" while fixating on a war over Taiwan.

There’s been yet another secret Pentagon leak from Secretary of Defense Peter Hegseth. It details the administration’s plans to reconfigure Pentagon priorities on what can be called the ‘Near Abroad’- which would include countries like Canada, Greenland, Mexico, Panama and even Costa Rica - and the ‘Far Away”. which represents Trump’s singular obsession of the the defense of Taiwan.

What everyone dismissed as Trump's empty imperial threats are now in black and white - formal military doctrine. A classified Pentagon document obtained by The Washington Post reveals Defense Secretary Hegseth is preparing the military for operations throughout the Western Hemisphere while simultaneously reorienting America's entire defense apparatus toward a potential Taiwan conflict.

SignalGate Redux

The new leaks come hot on the heels of last week’s Signal Scandal— where Hegseth reportedly shared detailed attack information for Yemen strikes in an encrypted Signal chat group that included journalist Jeffrey Goldberg. Hegseth revealed "attack sequencing, timing, weapons, and targets" according to Senate testimony. In the days after the scandal, Hegseth was adamant that no war plans were shared; only now they have been.

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The Pentagon Document Bombshell

The Pentagon document - marked "secret/no foreign national" and signed by Hegseth - is extraordinary. It represents one of the most significant military planning leaks of Trump's administration and suggests serious alarm inside defense circles about America's radical military reorientation.

The most alarming aspect of the Pentagon's secret guidance isn't its Taiwan focus, but rather its explicit instruction that U.S. forces must be "ready to defend American interests wherever they might be threatened in our hemisphere, from Greenland, to the Panama Canal, to Cape Horn."

This "near abroad" language—a term typically associated with Russia's approach to former Soviet territories—signals military readiness for operations across North America without explicitly naming Canada and Mexico. The document instructs the military to take a more direct role in border enforcement, deportations, and drug interdiction—traditionally the domain of civilian agencies.

Trump's declaration that "we have to have Greenland" has now escalated dramatically. In a bombshell NBC News interview, Trump explicitly refused to rule out military force to acquire Greenland, stating, "No, I never take military force off the table"—directly contradicting VP Vance's earlier assurances during his Greenland visit that America would respect the island's sovereignty.

What was once dismissed as mere bluster, now appears in a Pentagon strategic document directing US forces to plan for an attack on Greenland. The policy is a dangerous escalation that should alarm every nation in the hemisphere, particularly Denmark, a NATO ally that governs Greenland's foreign policy and defense.

Strategic Contradiction