The strategy is hardly isolationist. Rather, it makes an effort to prioritize interests and lay out the terms and conditions for continued protection from the United States. Nowhere are these ...

The U.S. Department of War released its 2026 National Defense Strategy (NDS) on January 23, 2026, laying out a defense ...

In early December, the Trump administration issued its National Security Strategy, a 33-page document required by law that has been published by various administrations since the late 1980s. The ...

Donald Trump, whose administration is reportedly drafting a new national cybersecurity strategy structured around six pillars. As cybersecurity threats continue to accelerate across nation-states, ...

President Donald Trump’s newly released National Security Strategy breaks the mold of White House strategy documents being a product of an elite policy consensus. From the outset, the document ...

The Trump administration’s 2025 National Security Strategy is, in many ways, unlike any in U.S. history. Most strategy documents of this kind articulate the threats that the United States’ adversaries ...

Sometimes, what a troubled relationship needs more than anything else is honesty. That is what President Donald Trump‘s 2025 National Security Strategy would deliver to Europe. Despite what critics ...

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Apart from Nicolas Maduro, who already faces a major American military buildup off his shores, Europeans seem most distressed by the new National Security Strategy. The document’s opening two pages ...

An alleged U.S. strategy document has sparked debate after suggesting potential divisions within a key international bloc. The purported assessment outlines differing priorities among member nations, ...

On Sept. 2, when American military aircraft targeted a boat in the Caribbean and reportedly followed it with a strike to pulverize the shipwrecked survivors, it was a new assertion of U.S. imperial ...

Donald Trump’s official National Security Strategy document pledges to control migration and limit “destabilizing population flows,” rails against “civilizational erasure” in Europe, and celebrates ...