The new National Security Strategy is out, and it’s a shock to the system. It is not just the latest public articulation of principles, ambitions, and priorities around which the United States ...

The White House has finally released the long-awaited National Security Strategy (NSS). Among the document’s patronizing treatment of US allies, incongruous aspirations to be the best in every ...

Like the classic Clint Eastwood western, the Trump Administration should have titled its National Security Strategy: “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.” The good is the NSS’s recognition of the ...

On December 4, 2025, the Trump administration released its new National Security Strategy. Far from being a dry technocratic document, it reads like a blistering broadside against Europe, a ...

The Trump administration released its National Security Strategy in November 2025, presenting a blueprint that reorients American foreign policy around a doctrine of “America First,” core national ...

The White House has released a new National Security Strategy whose central purpose is unambiguous: to ensure the United States remains the preeminent global power. At its core is a new and pragmatic ...

The 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS) has undercurrents of a classical maritime document that connects strategy to economic power. Echoes of the turn of the nineteenth century permeate the ...

The National Security Strategy (NSS) of the second Trump administration, released on December 4, signals a significant shift in American foreign policy thinking and prominently reflects the distinct ...

U.S. Marines with Apache Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, conduct a reconnaissance patrol during Exercise Steel Knight 25 at San Clemente Island, California, Dec. 8, ...

For decades, America’s chief adversaries, Russia and China, have been striving to upend the U.S.-led post-World War II international order. For just as long, the U.S. government has published national ...