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 "Strategies" 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 Introduction

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—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 American foreign policy elites since the Cold War. The strategy posits that past strategic objectives were ambiguous, overextension led to the depletion of national strength, and globalist 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 American national interest objectives. Overall, America seeks the survival and security of an independent sovereign republic, emphasizing full 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, the 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's recovery of "civilizational confidence," preventing hostile forces from dominating the Middle East, and ensuring American technological standards lead the world.

To achieve the above objectives, 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 the nine principles guiding foreign policy: "Focus on National Interest Definition," "Peace Through Strength," "Predisposition Toward Non-Interventionism," "Flexible Realism," "National Actor Primacy," "Sovereignty and Respect," "Balance of Power," "Pro-American Worker," and "Capability and Performance." Based on these principles, the document establishes several priorities: declaring "the era of mass migration is over," 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); conducting "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 American financial sector.

The document abandons a comprehensive regional discussion approach, 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 strategic asset control by non-hemispheric competitors, consolidating American dominance through an "enlist and expand" strategy. In Asia, the strategic core is "Winning the Economic Future, Preventing Military Confrontation," focusing on reversing the "fundamentally imbalanced" economic relationship with China. By protecting the American 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 asserts that the era of America's excessive focus on the region due to energy dependence is over. The current focus is on 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 such as securing energy routes, counterterrorism, and safeguarding 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 overtones. It provides crucial first-hand material and an analytical baseline for studying the direction of American national security thinking, the focus of foreign strategic adjustments, the dynamics of great power competition (particularly regarding China strategy), and the evolution of the global geopolitical landscape in the coming period.

Key Chapter Title List

1. Introduction: What is American Strategy?
2. How Past American "Strategies" 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 Introduction

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—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 American foreign policy elites since the Cold War. The strategy posits that past strategic objectives were ambiguous, overextension led to the depletion of national strength, and globalist 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 American national interest objectives. Overall, America seeks the survival and security of an independent sovereign republic, emphasizing full 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, the 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's recovery of "civilizational confidence," preventing hostile forces from dominating the Middle East, and ensuring American technological standards lead the world.

To achieve the above objectives, 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 the nine principles guiding foreign policy: "Focus on National Interest Definition," "Peace Through Strength," "Predisposition Toward Non-Interventionism," "Flexible Realism," "National Actor Primacy," "Sovereignty and Respect," "Balance of Power," "Pro-American Worker," and "Capability and Performance." Based on these principles, the document establishes several priorities: declaring "the era of mass migration is over," 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); conducting "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 American financial sector.

The document abandons a comprehensive regional discussion approach, 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 strategic asset control by non-hemispheric competitors, consolidating American dominance through an "enlist and expand" strategy. In Asia, the strategic core is "Winning the Economic Future, Preventing Military Confrontation," focusing on reversing the "fundamentally imbalanced" economic relationship with China. By protecting the American 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 asserts that the era of America's excessive focus on the region due to energy dependence is over. The current focus is on 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 such as securing energy routes, counterterrorism, and safeguarding 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 overtones. It provides crucial first-hand material and an analytical baseline for studying the direction of American national security thinking, the focus of foreign strategic adjustments, the dynamics of great power competition (particularly regarding China strategy), and the evolution of the global geopolitical landscape in the coming period.