Breaking down Trump’s 2025 National Security Strategy
On December 4, 2025, the Trump administration published its 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS). Below, Brookings scholars reflect on the document’s implications for U.S. foreign policy.
The 2025 US National Security Strategy On 5 December 2025, the White House released the 2025 United States (US) National Security Strategy (NSS). The NSS lays out the US foreign policy …
Experts react: What Trump’s National Security Strategy means for US ...
Dec 5, 2025 · The Trump 2.0 worldview is now on paper for the world to see. Late Thursday, the Trump administration released its National Security Strategy (NSS), a twenty-nine-page document outlining …
Trump's National Security Strategy: Five key takeaways
Dec 5, 2025 · In Article Audio PlayerHere are five takeaways from Trump’s national security strategy (NSS): Trump’s war in the Caribbean likely to heat up Trump’s more than two-month military …
White House Releases 2025 National Security Strategy
Dec 9, 2025 · On Dec. 4, the White House released its National Security Strategy (NSS), a document generally released once per presidential term that aims to serve as a formal explanation of the …
National Security Strategy - U.S. Department of Defense
The NSS is to be sent from the President to Congress in order to communicate the executive branch’s national security vision to the legislative branch. The NSS provides discussion on proposed...
National Security Strategy Archive
It is intended to be a comprehensive statement articulating the worldwide interests, goals, and objectives of the United States that are important to its security. Among the reporting requirements are those …
The Trump Administration’s National Security Strategy
Dec 5, 2025 · The NSS reaffirms US support for NATO and collective security, but it explicitly ties that support to Europe’s stepping up. The result will be an accelerated shift from burden-sharing toward …
The National Security Strategy: The Good, the Not So Great, and the ...
Dec 5, 2025 · This NSS marks an ideological and substantive shift in U.S. foreign policy, as the administration defines a new “America First” foreign policy doctrine that is deeply pragmatic, and …
The National Security Strategy Is Incoherent Babble
Dec 5, 2025 · The Trump administration’s 2025 National Security Strategy has landed, with not so much a thud as a kind of greasy flutter. Most of the document consists of bombast, sycophancy, lies ...