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 Means Are 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" of the United States of America, released in November 2025. This strategy marks a major paradigm shift in U.S. national security and foreign policy. Its core is a systematic summary and continuation of the "historic transformation" proclaimed during the first nine months of Trump's second term. The document begins with a presidential message, enumerating achievements since the administration took office in border control, military reform, alliance restructuring, energy independence, industrial repatriation, and a series of foreign military and diplomatic actions (such as Operation Midnight Hammer, which destroyed Iran's nuclear capabilities, and mediating eight global conflicts). This sets the overall tone of "America First" and "Peace Through Strength."

The main body of the strategic document is rigorously structured, following classic strategic planning logic. First, it critically reviews the "loss of direction" in American strategy since the end of the Cold War, accusing it of having vague goals, mismatched means, and allowing globalism and "free trade" to harm the American middle class and industrial base. Subsequently, the document clarifies the core system of objectives America should pursue in the new era, covering a comprehensive range of "national strength" dimensions from sovereignty and border security, military and technological superiority, economic and industrial vitality, to socio-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 geographic conditions, and the patriotic spirit of its people.

The strategic core of the document elaborates on nine guiding principles for foreign and security policy, including focusing on national interests, peace through strength, a predisposition toward non-interventionism, flexible realism, national primacy, sovereignty and respect, balance of power, pro-American worker policies, and meritocracy. These principles collectively serve the overarching guideline of "America First." Following this, the document lists specific strategic priorities, with "Ending the Era of Mass Migration" placed first, highlighting the elevation of border security 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 financial hegemony maintenance centered on economic security.

In the regional strategy section, the document breaks from the tradition of being all-encompassing and explicitly adopts selective focus. For the Western Hemisphere, it proposes the "Trump Corollary" to forcefully exclude extra-hemispheric powers, with the goal of "enlist and Expand." In Asia, the core is "Winning the Economic Future, Preventing Military Confrontation." It provides 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 (especially 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 transfer issues. The U.S. policy objective is to help Europe "correct its current trajectory," rebuild stability, and make it 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 immense analytical value. It systematically presents a new blueprint for U.S. national security centered on the "America First" core concept, based on strength and sovereignty, and employing selective intervention and economic security as means. It provides the most authoritative primary text for studying the direction of U.S. internal and external policies in the coming period.