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

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 ...

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

U.S. government documents are a dime a dozen. The Pentagon, for example, puts out an annual report on China’s military power and capabilities. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence ...

The next National Defense Strategy—which was due to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Aug. 31—could not come at a more critical time, as Pentagon leaders seek to manage foreign-policy challenges, a ...

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

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. President Donald Trump’s national security strategy tasks the U.S. intelligence community with monitoring global supply chains as part ...

“Defending the homeland” has always been the point of the national defense strategy, experts argue, but the precursors to the forthcoming update hint that the way the U.S. practices homeland defense ...

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

“Military leaders have raised serious concerns about the Trump administration’s forthcoming defense strategy,” the Washington Post reports. “The critiques from multiple top officers … come as [US ...