National Security Strategy of the United States of America November 2025

 

National Security Strategy

of the United States of America

November 2025

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 I.                   Introduction – What Is American Strategy?......................................... 1

1. How American “Strategy” Went Astray……………………………………… 1

2. President Trump’s Necessary, Welcome Correction…………………………. 2

 

II. What Should the United States Want?...............................................................3

1. What Do We Want Overall?.............................................................................. 3

2. What Do We Want In and From the World?......................................................5

 

III.What Are America’s Available Means to Get What We Want?........................6

 

IV. The Strategy…………………………………………………………………..8

1. Principles……………………………………………………………………... 8

2. Priorities…………………………………………………………………….. 11

3. The Regions………………………………………………………………….15

A. The Western Hemisphere………………………………………………. 15

B. Asia…………………………………………………………………….. 19

C. Europe………………………………………………………………….. 25

D. The Middle East………………………………………………………... 27

E. Africa…………………………………………………………………... 29