National Security Strategy

Defense Primer: U.S. Strategic Nuclear Forces

The following is the Feb. 2, 2023, Congressional Research Service report, Defense Primer: Strategic Nuclear Forces.

From the report

The Nuclear Triad

Since the early 1960s, the United States has maintained a “triad” of strategic nuclear delivery vehicles. These include long-range land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), long-range submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs), and long-range heavy bombers equipped to carry nuclear-armed cruise missiles and gravity bombs. The number...

https://news.usni.org/2023/02/08/defense-primer-u-s-strategic-nuclear-forces

2022 U.S. National Security Strategy

The following is an unclassified version of the Biden administration’s National Security Strategy released on Oct. 12, 2022.

From the report

We are now in the early years of a decisive decade for America and the world. The terms of geopolitical competition between the major powers will be set. The window of opportunity to deal with shared threats, like climate change, will narrow drastically. The actions we take now will shape whether this period is known as an age of conflict and discord or the...

https://news.usni.org/2022/10/12/2022-u-s-national-security-strategy

AEI Panel Warns Against Tying National Security Strategy to Domestic Priorities

Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning underway. PLAN Photo

Tying a new national security strategy focused on China and Russia to domestic priorities can become complicated when handling issues like arms control, a top security analyst said Wednesday.

Speaking Wednesday in an online forum at the American Enterprise Institute, Gabriel Scheinmann, executive director of the Alexander Hamilton Society, said that cooperating with a nation like China on climate while competing with it in other areas is...

https://news.usni.org/2022/01/27/aei-panel-warns-against-tying-national-security-strategy-to-domestic-priorities

New Chinese Military Strategy Casts U.S. Military in Asia as Destabilizing

Members of a Chinese military honor guard march during a welcome ceremony. DoD photo

A new Chinese defense ministry policy paper counters the Pentagon’s National Defense Strategy by casting the U.S. as an aggressive and destabilizing force in Asia.

The recently released China’s National Defense in the New Era acknowledges China and the U.S. are competing superpowers, but China’s paper makes the case Beijing’s policies provide peaceful security to a region facing threats posed by pressure from the...

https://news.usni.org/2019/07/30/new-chinese-military-strategy-casts-u-s-military-in-asia-as-destabilizing

Document: U.S. National Intelligence Strategy 2019

The following is the recently released U.S. National Intelligence Strategy 2019.

Letter from the Director of National Intelligence

As the Director of National Intelligence, I am fortunate to lead an Intelligence Community (IC) composed of the best and brightest professionals who have committed their careers and their lives to protecting our national security. The IC is a 24/7/365 organization, scanning the globe and delivering the most distinctive, timely insights with clarity, objectivity, and...

https://news.usni.org/2019/01/23/document-u-s-national-intelligence-strategy-2019