The following is the Dec. 18, 2025, Congressional Research Service in focus report, National Defense Strategy: Potential ...

Trump's 'America First' strategy matches public demand for stronger military against China, yet Americans favor more NATO support than suggested.

The National Security Strategy 2025, whatever one’s personal sentiments, reflects a more coherent strategic vision than its Trump 1.0 counterpart. Its animating philosophy is unambiguous: National ...

President Trump’s latest national security initiative is unlikely to make the US secure from outside danger. For that matter, ...

America First is a strategy of invincible self-defense against foreign invasion; a threat to annihilate any aggressor; and by ...

Trump recognizes the threat of China on paper, but his strategy builds a doctrine whose sharpest, least cautious commitments ...

The paradoxical and selective U.S. posture of simultaneous disengagement and selective involvement evident in the new NSS could be particularly concerning for India.

The essence of the strategy is focusing on core national interests of the United States, without the distraction of asking ...

The 2025 National Security Strategy recasts naval power as an economic and industrial instrument, pushing the Navy toward ...

Instead of withdrawing from upholding international order, the Donald Trump administration should embrace a strategy of ...

President Donald Trump’s new National Security Strategy, released Dec. 4, largely charts a needed correction for the United States on military and foreign policy.

Out with a “rules-based international order” and in with “U.S. core national interests”, according to the U.S. National Security Strategy (NSS) of 2025. The NSS was not well-received by many of the 32 ...