January 20, 2026: At the end of 2025, the United States revealed a new National Security Strategy/NSS document. This one was different in that it was more precise, political, decisive and differentiated than earlier efforts.

This NSS seeks to create a new era of unprecedented achievement for America. This includes using the President's unique deal-making skills to negotiate peace deals in more than a dozen ongoing conflicts around the world. In the first year of the current Presidency, most of these conflicts had been settled or peace efforts were making substantial progress.

The new NSS reveals a new diplomacy based on economic and military deal-making rather than American worldwide economic and military domination. Domestically, more emphasis is now placed on eliminating illegal migration. This will reduce migrant related crime, increase employment opportunities for U.S. citizens and lead to more cooperation with nations that supply the illegal migrants to find solutions that convince foreigners to seek legal migration to the United States.

There is also a new approach to American reactions to crises in the Western Hemisphere. The United States is more willing to use force to prevent countries in other parts of the world from interfering in our hemisphere. When there is an internal or multinational problem in our hemisphere, the situation will be addressed by the U.S. more quickly and forcefully than in the past.

Another new government policy is support for traditional family values where the family consists of a mother, father and children. Families are encouraged to raise children in an atmosphere that supports traditional American values of fairness, hard work and honest dealings with others. It’s also important to make Americans aware of how foreign policy problems often depend on different family, social, and political values found in foreign countries. This explains why U.S. and European attitudes towards supporting Ukraine in its war with Russia differ.

New American military proposals, like the Golden Dome ballistic missile shield, are also subject to financial and diplomatic issues. Can the U.S. defense budget sustain such a project and does it risk starting another arms race like the one between the U.S. and the Soviet Union during the 1948-91 Cold War?

Another NSS issue is the extent to which the United States military is used to defend European NATO nations and allies in the Pacific region. NATO Europe nations collectively generate half the global GDP. Pacific allies like Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Australia maintain armed forces, in cooperation with U.S. forces assigned to the Western Pacific, are hopefully an effective deterrent to any aggressive Chinese military plans.

The United States wants its allies, particularly the ones in Europe, to make more of an effort to defend themselves. That means spending at least 2 percent of GDP on defense and preferably 5 percent. Currently the U.S. spends 3.4 percent, which will come to a trillion dollars a year in 2027. The European average is 1.8 percent, and the growing Russian threat has all European nations’ increasing their defense spending. The countries closest to Russia, like Poland and the three Baltic States, are headed towards five percent. Poland is already over 4 percent, and the three Baltic States are at about 3.4 percent and rising.

The U.S. is also more aggressive in advising its allies to stop Islamic radicals from migrating to their nations and to expel the ones already there. European governments are downplaying the danger, but their constituents are alarmed. European elections over the next five or ten years will create governments that recognize the Islamic threat and deal with it. A growing number of Americans and politicians are backing laws that demand potential and existing voters to present valid photo ID to vote. This would eliminate all the current voting fraud committed by illegal migrants and corrupt politicians.

Another needed reform is the state of American industrial capacity. For three decades more manufacturing, and jobs, have been exported to China and other nations. The new policy seeks to bring the manufacturing and the jobs back to the United States. This is all part of a revived America First policy.