U.S. National Security Strategy

Key Chapter Title List

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

Document Overview

This document is the full text of the official "National Security Strategy" released by the United States of America in November 2025. This strategy marks a significant paradigm shift in U.S. national security and foreign policy, systematically summarizing and continuing the historic transformation proclaimed during the first nine months of President Trump's second term. It opens with a presidential message detailing achievements since the administration took office, including border control, military reform, alliance restructuring, energy independence, industrial reshoring, and a series of foreign military and diplomatic actions (such as Operation Midnight Hammer that destroyed Iran's nuclear capabilities and mediating eight global conflicts), establishing the overarching tone of "America First" and "peace through strength."

The main structure of the strategic document is rigorous, following classic strategic planning logic. First, it critically reviews the missteps in American strategy since the end of the Cold War, accusing it of goal diffusion, means mismatch, and allowing globalism and free trade to harm the American middle class and industrial base. Subsequently, the document clarifies the core objectives America should pursue in the new era, covering comprehensive dimensions of national power from sovereignty and border security, military and technological superiority, economic and industrial vitality, to societal and cultural health. Building on this, the document provides a detailed assessment of the various advantageous assets available to the United States, including the resilience of its political system, economic and financial hegemony, military alliance networks, uniquely favorable geographical conditions, and the patriotism of its people.

The core strategic section of the document outlines nine principles guiding foreign and security policy, including a focus on national interest, peace through strength, a predisposition toward non-interventionism, flexible realism, national primacy, sovereignty and respect, balance of power, pro-American worker, and capability and merit. These principles collectively serve the overarching "America First" approach. The document then lists specific strategic priorities, with "Ending the Era of Mass Migration" placed first, highlighting that border security has been elevated to a cornerstone of national security. Other priorities include protecting core rights and freedoms, burden-sharing and shifting among allies, strategic realignment through peacemaking, and reindustrialization, energy dominance, and safeguarding financial hegemony centered on economic security.

In the regional strategy section, the document breaks from the tradition of being all-encompassing, explicitly adopting selective focus. For the Western Hemisphere, it proposes the "Trump Corollary" to forcefully exclude extra-hemispheric powers, aiming for "Enlist and Expand." In Asia, the core is winning the economic future and preventing military confrontation, providing a detailed analysis of rebalancing economic relations with China, supply chain security, technological competition, and deterring potential conflict by strengthening alliance systems and military presence (particularly in the First Island Chain), with the Taiwan issue positioned as key to maintaining a favorable conventional military balance. Regarding Europe, the document sharply criticizes its economic stagnation, loss of civilizational confidence, and sovereignty surrender, stating the U.S. policy goal is to help Europe correct its current trajectory, rebuild stability, and become self-reliant. For the Middle East and Africa, the strategy emphasizes shifting from long-term military engagement to responsibility transfer, partnerships based on shared interests, and a model transition from aid to trade and investment.

This strategic document is an official policy statement of significant analytical value. It systematically presents a new blueprint for U.S. national security centered on the "America First" philosophy, based on strength and sovereignty, and employing selective intervention and economic security as means. It provides the most authoritative primary text for studying the trajectory of U.S. domestic and foreign policy in the coming period.