US EditionMilitarism Without Strategy: How the 2025 National Security Document Institutionalizes Perpetual Conflict
The 2025 strategy prioritizes the Western Hemisphere, commercial diplomacy, and shifts defense responsibility to allies, while minimizing focus on democracy and downplaying Russia.
- On Dec. 4, President Donald Trump’s administration released a 33-page National Security Strategy that narrows U.S. security priorities and directs allies to assume `primary responsibility` for their defense.
- Administration advisers emphasized commercial diplomacy via tariffs and reciprocal trade deals, downplaying freedom and democracy while framing migration as a civilizational security threat under the Trump Corollary.
- The strategy notably omits criticism of Russia and a U.S. commitment to NATO's Article 5, while Christopher Landau, Deputy Secretary of State, warned on X about Europe's `civilisational erasure` and claims some NATO members may become majority non-European.
- U.S. retreat from parts of the world means China and Russia stand to expand influence in Europe, and observers warn this threatens democratic forces abroad.
- The 33-page National Security Strategy reads like a return to earlier great-power thinking, with Vice-President JD Vance's team shaping its tone and administration officials treating it as guiding doctrine.
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Militarism Without Strategy: How the 2025 National Security Document Institutionalizes Perpetual Conflict
On December 4, 2025, the Trump administration released a document claiming to herald a "Golden Age of Peace"; yet a careful reading reveals an entirely different picture: a roadmap for institutionalizing chronic militarism and perpetuating conflict in a new form. The new U.S. National Security Strategy portrays Trump as the…
Trump’s National Security Strategy ditches ‘civilizationally dead’ Europe
The American government periodically drafts and issues a document called the National Security Strategy (NSS) that outlines its security concerns and maps out “the best course of action” for the incumbent administration to address the said issues. Apart from the usual identification of major (Russia, China) and regional adversaries (North Korea, Iran, Venezuela, etc), the paper […] The post Trump’s National Security Strategy ditches ‘civilizatio…
Trump 2.0’s National Security Strategy
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Reading Trump’s National Security Strategy: Europe through a distorted lens
Cover image: picture alliance / REUTERS | Brian Snyder One could certainly argue—and some have—that in the world of US President Donald Trump a document like the National Security Strategy matters little. He is unlikely to have helped drafting it; maybe he has not even have read it. In any given situation, he tends to act on impulse rather than rely on policy documents. With few exceptions, he is not known to be a man of coherent strategies. Sti…
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