Since 1945, the US has pursued a grand strategy that prioritizes building and maintaining its unrivaled network of allies and partners. This approach was temporarily replaced during the Trump administration with its “America first” policy, which adopted a more questioning and confrontational tone. However, since President Biden took office in 2021, the United States has reverted to a more traditional approach, emphasizing the importance of alliances and efforts to deepen and expand them. The 2022 National Defense Strategy and the 2024 Department of Defense (DoD) Strategy for the Arctic consider the U.S. friends a "center of gravity," indeed, a term in military planning jargon, thus embedding American national security interests on “globe-spanning network of alliances and partnerships”. The point is that these documents articulate the security cooperation entails formal alliances, multilateral coalitions, and military-to-military engagements among nation-states.