By Ambassador (Dr.) Mohan Kumar, Director General, MJIAS
Now that the much awaited National Security Strategy (NSS) December 2025 is out, it is interesting to compare the present version with the NSS dated December 2017 which was published by the first Trump administration. A broad-brush assessment is given below. Analysts will no doubt pore over the 33-page document of the NSS 2025 ( the NSS 2017 was 68 pages long!) and give their detailed assessment in the days and weeks ahead.
America First:聽Both the NSS 2017 and the NSS 2025 put 鈥淎merica First鈥� and this manifests itself through the core foreign policy interest which is protection of homeland security. The 2017 document is clear: The fundamental responsibility is to protect the American people, the homeland and the American way of life. The 2025 document goes one step further and talks of 鈥渇ull control over borders, over immigration system and over transportation networks through which people come into the country 鈥撀�濒别驳补濒濒测听(emphasis mine) and illegally.鈥� By clubbing legal and illegal immigration together, the NSS 2025 makes its intentions clear 鈥� to stop 鈥渄estabilizing population flows鈥� and allow the US full and sovereign control over who is admitted and who is not. The NSS 2025 proclaims that the era of mass migration is over and that a border controlled by the will of the American people as implemented by their government is fundamental to the survival of the US as a sovereign republic.