The 2025 National Security Strategy

The White House just posted its 2025 National Security Strategy of the United States of America. The pdf can be found here: whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-National-Security-Strategy.pdf

To keep America the strongest, wealthiest, most powerful, and most successful nation for generations, we need a clear, focused strategy for dealing with the rest of the world. Every American should understand exactly what we’re trying to achieve and why.

It is a practical plan that directly links our goals with the resources and actions to reach them. It starts with an honest look at what we truly want and an accurate inventory of our strengths, weaknesses and the tools we have at hand, or can create, to make it happen. A strategy forces hard choices: it ranks priorities and decides what matters most.

“We want an America that cherishes its past glories and its heroes, and that looks forward to a new golden age. We want a people who are proud, happy, and optimistic that they will leave their country to the next generation better than they found it. We want a gainfully employed citizenry—with no one sitting on the sidelines—who take satisfaction from knowing that their work is essential to the prosperity of our nation and to the well-being of individuals and families. This cannot be accomplished without growing numbers of strong, traditional families that raise healthy children.”

What do we want?

Stable and safe. The Monroe Doctrine was a cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy, first articulated by President James Monroe in his seventh annual message to Congress on December 2, 1823. It essentially warned European powers to stay out of the Western Hemisphere and established the United States as the dominant power in the Americas. We want something like this again, only with a Trump flair.
Halt and reverse the damage done by foreign actors taking advantage of America, while establishing good trade relations and robust supply chains. (Did Foreign actors interfere in U.S. elections? Have they influenced our leaders and politicians? Have they weakened us with unfair trade deficits?)
Avoid “forever wars” by establishing a balance of power in Europe and in the Middle East where each individual identity is preserved and mutually supported.
Drive the world forward productively in AI, biotech, and quantum computing.

What do we have to work with? The U.S. leads in assets, resources and still has the political ability to course correct. It’s ability to engineer and innovate is unsurpassed. Countries want to work with American creativity and leadership. The U.S. is able to use that as leverage to achieve influence for peace. President Trump wasn’t kidding when he tells us that we are becoming the hottest country. We are open and transparent and stand for freedom.

America is bringing back competence culture. Making our economy productive again. Helping Americans experience economic freedom again instead of debt slavery. Begin to innovate and prosper. President Trump’s unorthodox approach supports this. It is a solid strategy to focus on America’s interests while standing on the power of the military and use diplomatic means to establish workable plans for economic opportunities for mutual strength. The world just works better when countries are looking after their own interests. This doesn’t mean for nations to trample over one another, but rather to respect mutual sovereignty. This includes ending foreign influence lobbying U.S. politicians, jeopardizing free speech rights, or steering U.S. policies to get them involved in foreign wars.

The 2025 National Strategy stresses working with global partners instead of against, so we can utilize good relationships to maintain balanced power within a region. The American worker is being recognized, celebrated and supported again. This leads individuals to growth in skills, and personal development of abilities. It allows Americans to experience a sense of pride their work again, which is something psychologists say is essential for a sense of happiness and fulfillment. This plan bases itself on fairness- Military, trade, and economic for the overall health of each nation’s ability to stand solidly on its own and do business productively. Fair credit on the basis of merit promotes competence. When America honors and promotes the best of itself, its innovative capabilities thrive, motivation is encouraged. When merit is not recognized, workers tend to become discouraged.

The 2025 National Security Strategy says that the era of mass migration is over, and any attempt to interfere with America’s future by what it allows in through its borders, will define its future. The United States has learned an important lesson and it must protect itself from invasion. It must control its border from threats such as terrorism, drugs, human trafficking and espionage for its ultimate survival. The People’s rights must be upheld and protected, and the government’s powers must never be abused. The United States will not be supporting the world and has reestablished agreements that corrects overextension that has caused it to go into great debt. Those countries it used to protect are now in new local and regional security agreements. Exciting new peace deals allow partnering in a new and novel approaches toward realignment with that country’s own unique interests.

Economic security is fundamental to national security. Here is how that will be achieved and maintained:

Balanced Trade
Securing access to critical supply chains and resources
Reindustrialization and manufacturing boom
Reviving our Defense Industry
Energy Dominance
Preserving and growing America’s financial sector

The Regions are:

Western Hemisphere
Asia
Europe
Middle East
Africa

The National Security Strategy seeks to protect and defend our economy and our people from harm, by first, the United States must end:

Predatory, state-directed subsidies and industrial strategies
Unfair and imbalanced trading practices
Job eliminations and worker disenfranchisement
Intellectual property theft and industrial espionage
Potential threats to U.S. supply chains for minerals and rare earth elements
Availability of fentanyl precursors that are used to further the opioid epidemic
Propaganda, influence and manipulation operations

Then, working with treaty allies and partners, to further their economies and alliances, while also investing in research to advance technology and preserve America’s advantages. So far, these strategies are working and confidence in President Trump’s strategies is surging.

Right now the goal is to rebalance global trade imbalances and reestablish good trade relationships. It has been made clear that America’s trade imbalances cannot be sustained. America still leads in many key technology areas. It is reasonable that America is first choice as a global trade partner, so we are making available defense purchases, collaboration in technology, and the ability to sell to the American people. Having a National Security Strategy is by definition advantageous to set real guidelines on where we want to go and how we intend to get there, not just a wish list. We will be in transition with some partners from aid to trade that will take some time.

There is a lot more in the 2025 National Security Strategy. It is brilliantly written and informative. You can read it here.

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