Notwithstanding the spin by America’s “mainstream media” on the United States National Security 2025 document released by the Trump administration, the US NSS 2025 is a compendium worth reading.

If at all there is something called a “top-down revolution”, the reversal of time and entrenched policies that created certain paradigms, then the contents of the US NSS 2025 correspond to that.

So, what is the US NSS 2025? What makes it different (or quasi-revolutionary)? What is its content, in the main?

The US NSS 2025 is a compendium of policy notes, reversals, and a review of post-Cold War paradigms that determined and defined United States foreign and domestic policy. Going by the appellation of “globalism,” post-Cold War US foreign policy, according to the US NSS 2025, led to an unfocused and diffuse foreign policy, detached from means and ends.

In other words, globalist premises crafted policy paradigms that dissipated American national interests, leading to “forever burdens” on the country.

In the main, this is what the US NSS 2025 seeks to reverse, creating a fresh and new crucible that puts America First.

This, naturally, calls for “paradigm-shattering” philosophies and, as a corollary, policies that lead to American national renewal.

By clear policy preferences, by implication, and by inference, the document calls for other states to adjust. How, then, does the document read, and what are its contents?

The US NSS 2025 reads as a fine and crisp document. It begins with an introductory note by the 47th President of the United States, Donald Trump. The US President flags alarms and achievements of his administration since he assumed office in 2024. Calling the document a roadmap, President Trump makes a call for American freedom, security, and greatness.

The US NSS 2025 then defines and describes American grand strategy, which it states “had lost focus.” Calling for a “realignment between means and ends,” the US NSS 2025 suggests a “pecking order of priorities” for the United States, defined by “evaluating, sorting, and prioritizing.”

Alluding to the elitism that defined post-Cold War US foreign policy, marked by a disconnect between Americans’ aspirations and the national interest, the document calls attention to “free trade”-defined globalism.

In the interstices of the two, sovereignty was denigrated and demeaned, and the American middle class was “hollowed out,” along with the country’s industrial base.

Employing a term from political economy, the document asserts that “America’s overstretch,” among other things, meant that “peripheral interests assumed centre stage.”

In this schema, interests morphed into an “irrelevant” mishmash. It was (and is) under the leadership of Donald Trump that a “course correction” is sought and made real.

While disavowing any labels (realism, hyper-realism, and so on) and ideological proclivities, the US NSS 2025 privileges sovereignty and its accoutrements, including “survival, security of the United States, and strong borders”, and meshes these with the natural rights of Americans (a throwback to the Grotian tradition and that of Thomas........

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