The National Security Strategy of the United States of America (English Version)

Key Chapter Title List

1. Introduction: What is American Strategy?
2. How Past American Strategy Went Astray
3. President Trump's Necessary and Welcome Correction
4. What Should America Pursue?
5. What Means Are Available for America to Achieve Its Goals?
6. Strategy
7. Principles
8. Priorities
9. Regional Strategies
10. Western Hemisphere: The Trump Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
11. Asia: Winning the Economic Future, Preventing Military Confrontation
12. Middle East: Shifting the Burden, Building Peace

Document Overview

This document is the official version of the "National Security Strategy" released by the United States of America in November 2025. This strategic document systematically expounds upon the national security vision, core principles, and specific implementation pathways for President Trump's second term. The document sets its tone from the outset, declaring that within nine months, it has brought America and the world back from the brink of disaster. Through a series of measures—including restoring sovereign borders, strengthening military investment, reshaping alliance relationships, and launching specific military operations (such as Operation Midnight Hammer which destroyed Iran's nuclear enrichment capabilities)—it has achieved a historic policy shift, making America strong and respected once again.

The core logic of the document is built upon a critique of the strategic disorientation of America's post-Cold War foreign policy elite. The strategy argues that past strategic goals were ambiguous, overextension led to the depletion of national strength, and globalism and free trade policies harmed the American middle class and industrial base, while allowing allies to shift defense costs onto the United States. The Trump administration's strategy aims to provide a necessary and welcome correction to this, with its fundamental guiding principle being America First.

The strategy clearly defines the system of U.S. national interest objectives. Overall, America seeks the survival and security of an independent sovereign republic, emphasizing complete control over borders, immigration, and infrastructure, and is committed to building the world's most powerful, technologically advanced military force and nuclear deterrent system. Economically, goals include maintaining the world's strongest and most innovative economy, rebuilding a robust industrial base (particularly the defense industrial base), ensuring energy dominance, protecting intellectual property, and restoring America's spiritual and cultural health. Externally, the strategy focuses on core interests such as ensuring Western Hemisphere stability, maintaining a free and open Indo-Pacific, supporting Europe in regaining its civilizational confidence, preventing hostile forces from dominating the Middle East, and ensuring U.S. technological standards lead the world.

To achieve the above goals, the document assesses America's world-leading assets, including a flexible political system, the largest economy, a dominant financial system, cutting-edge technology sectors, the most powerful military, an extensive alliance network, superior geographical conditions, unparalleled soft power, and the courage and patriotism of the American people. Furthermore, President Trump's domestic agenda—such as eliminating discriminatory practices like DEI, unleashing energy production capacity, reindustrialization, large-scale tax cuts and deregulation, and investment in emerging technologies—is seen as a key means to enhance national strength.

The strategy section elaborates in detail on nine guiding principles for foreign policy: focus on defining national interests, seeking peace through strength, a predisposition toward non-interventionism, flexible realism, prioritizing national subjectivity, sovereignty and respect, balance of power, pro-American workers, and capability and performance. Based on these principles, the document establishes several priorities: declaring the end of the era of mass migration, emphasizing border security as the primary element of national security; protecting core rights and freedoms, opposing elite-driven anti-democratic restrictions; promoting burden-sharing and burden-shifting, demanding allies take on more defense responsibilities (e.g., NATO countries raising defense spending to 5% of GDP); strategic realignment through facilitating peace agreements; and placing economic security at the core of national security, with specific measures including balancing trade, securing critical supply chains and materials, promoting reindustrialization, revitalizing the defense industrial base, achieving energy dominance, and maintaining and enhancing the dominance of the U.S. financial sector.

The document abandons a comprehensive, all-encompassing regional discussion, emphasizing focus and trade-offs based on core interests. For the Western Hemisphere, it proposes and reinforces the Trump Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, aiming to exclude military presence and control of strategic assets by non-hemispheric competitors, consolidating U.S. leadership through an "enlist and expand" strategy. In Asia, the strategic core is winning the economic future and preventing military confrontation, focusing on reversing the fundamentally imbalanced economic relationship with China. By protecting the U.S. economy from predatory practices, coordinating actions with allies, investing in cutting-edge military and dual-use technologies, and strengthening cyber defense and offensive capabilities, it aims to maintain long-term economic and technological superiority, thereby deterring large-scale military conflict. For Europe, the strategy focuses on helping Europe correct its current trajectory, restore its civilizational confidence and status as a group of sovereign nations, encourage it to take primary responsibility for its own defense, and stabilize relations with Russia. For the Middle East, the strategy posits that the era of U.S. over-focus on the region due to energy dependence is over. The current focus is shifting the defense burden, consolidating peace processes (such as expanding the Abraham Accords), and, based on accepting the status quo of regional states, cooperating around core interests like securing energy routes, counterterrorism, and ensuring Israel's security. For Africa, the strategy advocates shifting from an aid model to a trade and investment model, engaging in selective cooperation to resolve conflicts, develop resources (such as energy and critical minerals), while avoiding long-term military commitments.

This document is an official strategic text with distinct policy orientation and ideological characteristics. It provides crucial first-hand material and an analytical benchmark for studying the direction of U.S. national security thinking, key areas of foreign strategic adjustment, the state of great power competition (particularly regarding China strategy), and the evolution of the global geopolitical landscape in the coming period.