This National Security Strategy (NSS) marks an ideological and substantive shift in U.S. foreign policy. The administration is attempting to define a new “America First” foreign policy doctrine that ...

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 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 ...

For decades, America’s chief adversaries, Russia and China, have been striving to upend the U.S.-led post-World War II international order. For just as long, the U.S. government has published national ...

I have taught national security strategy at the Joint Special Operations University for some 15 years. Every president from Harry Truman to Donald Trump (seven Democrats, seven Republicans) has ...

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 ...