New US National Security Strategy is a Big Deal!
Published on HivePostify by @apshamilton · Tue Dec 09 2025
A few days ago the US published a new official [National Security Strategy](https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-National-Security-Strategy.pdf).
It is definitely worth reading in full - 33 pages of easy to read, but powerful text that will dramatically change the world.
This document provides the full intellectual basis for the current and future actions of USA under the Trump Administration and beyond.
It is a huge break from the past and indeed the first fully coherent national security strategy the US has had since the end of the Cold War.
A Guide to Understanding US Actions in the World
Read this document if you want to understand: - what the US is doing in Venezuela; - Elon Musk's fight with the EU over censorship; - what Trump's tariffs & trade policies are about; - US policy with regard to Russia or China; or - what the US expects of its allies.
Many people think that President Trump is stupid and his policies are incoherent. The mainstream press portrays America's actions as almost random and never examines underlying strategy.
If you read this document you will understand that this is not the case.
I have never thought this was the case and have published a number of posts this year explaining what Trump is doing.
Feb 2025: https://peakd.com/freespeech/@apshamilton/us-vp-vance-facially-rebukes-european-leaders-demands-free-speech-and-free-elections
March 2025: https://peakd.com/tariffs/@apshamilton/what-is-trump-doing-with-tariffs
May 2025: https://peakd.com/trump/@apshamilton/what-trump-is-doing-in-the-middle-east
Aug 2025: https://peakd.com/geopolitics/@apshamilton/meanwhile-back-in-the-real-world-
If you read them you'll see I was very much in alignment with what is now the clearly published strategy of the United States under the Trump Administration.
Trump and his team have a clear, clever and coherent strategy.
But it is a major break with the way the US has behaved since the end of the Cold War and it is going to shock many people.
It is a blank canvas reassessment of the world, US core interests and capabilities. It recognises America's strengths, but also its limitations and weaknesses. It acknowledges past mistakes.
In many ways it is a return to US strategy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, especially with the renewed primacy of the Monroe Doctrine. But it is not isolationism, far from it. It is about reinvigorating & refocussing alliances, not abandoning them.
This document proves that while Trump sometimes implements policy via non-transparent means, via posturing and seemingly extreme statements, there are clear guiding principles - they have now been clearly enunciated.
While the document is aspirational and may not be successful in all respects, it clarifies the new path the US is taking and will have major global impacts.
History will view the Trump Doctrines embodied in this new National Security Strategy as a major turning point in world affairs.
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Key Takeways
While I'm not going to deal with all aspects of the Strategy, I want to highlight a number of key takeaways.
1) Woke Globalism as a National Security Threat
The Strategy also represents the culmination of a trend that [I have been noticing for some time](https://peakd.com/freespeech/@apshamilton/us-vp-vance-facially-rebukes-european-leaders-demands-free-speech-and-free-elections), especially since [Vice President Vance's February 2025 Speech at The Munich Security Conference](https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/02/14/fullspeechvicepresidentjdvanceaddressesmunichsecurityconference.html).
The US is no longer treating woke globalism, censorship, DEI, transgenderism & mass migration as merely domestic threats.
It is treating them as threats to national security.
This means the US is not just stamping them out internally, but will use the full range of its powers to stamp them out globally, particularly to the extent they weaken key allies.
Some commentators such as [UK Maj Andrew Fox](https://open.substack.com/pub/mrandrewfox/p/a-stragety-written-in-contempt), have been highly critical, calling this:
> a choice to export domestic grievance into allied democracies, to elevate factionalism into policy, to lean toward the parties and movements that promise rupture and punishment."
This is, of course, missing the point that these maladaptive ideologies have been extremely damaging to the security & welfare of both the citizens of the USA and its major Western allies. These ideologies have seriously damaged military preparedness, social cohesion, institutional trust & much more.
It is not a stretch to say these ideologies are far more dangerous than ANY foreign threat, including China & Russia. Indeed pushing these damaging ideas in the West, while quite sensibly banning them at home has been clever strategy from countries like China, Russia, Iran & Qatar.
a) Intervention to save Europe
This broader strategic decision drives part of US policy on Europe.
The section of the Strategy on Europe represents a harsh, but fair, assessment of Europe's decline and a stated intention to intervene to try to save Europe from Woke Globalism and restore its greatness.
Diagnosis
> The larger issues facing Europe include activities of the European Union and other transnational bodies that undermine political liberty and sovereignty, migration policies that are transforming the continent and creating strife, censorship of free speech and suppression of political opposition, cratering birthrates, and loss of national identities and self-confidence. [pg 25]
US Policy Medicine
> Cultivating resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations [pg27].
What this means is that the US will covertly and overtly intervene in Europe to promote and support what the mainstream media wrongly call "far right" parties and political figures like Tommy Robinson, AfD, Gert Wilders, Marine Le Penn, PM Viktor Orban and others.
These people actually have the support of the vast majority of regular Europeans, but are vehemently opposed by the globalist undemocratic elites running Europe.
This is a political bombshell and is also a direct response to UK interference in US elections against Trump.
Elon Musk's calls for the dissolution of the EU (examined in [this post](https://peakd.com/hive-121566/@vikisecrets/eu-vs-x-this-is-brutal-officially-the-eu-commission-fined-x-euro120m-because-of-deceptive-blue-ticks-not-lack-of-censorship#@apshamilton/re-vikisecrets-t6zqhz) by @vikisecrets) are are direct implementation of this new US Strategy.
2) Israel, the Middle East & Expectations of Allies
The US strategic policy aim in the Middle East is simple:
> We want to prevent an adversarial power from dominating the Middle East, its oil and gas supplies, and the chokepoints through which they pass while avoiding the “forever wars” that bogged us down in that region at great cost [pg 5]
And Israel's massive victories over its and the US's enemies over the last 2 years have delivered this aim.
> Conflict remains the Middle East’s most troublesome dynamic, but there is today less to this problem than headlines might lead one to believe. Iran—the region’s chief destabilizing force—has been greatly weakened by Israeli actions since October 7, 2023, and President Trump’s June 2025 Operation Midnight Hammer, which significantly degraded Iran’s nuclear program. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict remains thorny, but thanks to the ceasefire and release of hostages President Trump negotiated, progress toward a more permanent peace has been made. Hamas’s chief backers have been weakened or stepped away. [pg 28]
This US Strategy recognises that Israel's new regional hegemony essentially delivers the US strategic policy objective and allows the US to pivot away from the Middle East (while maintaining support for Israel & Arab allies).
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