# 2025 National Security Strategy **Entity class:** Document (U.S. national strategy) **Domain:** U.S. National Security / Transatlantic Relations **Concept Hub:** [[wiki/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]] **Aliases:** National Security Strategy of the United States of America (November 2025); 2025 NSS ## Definition **The 2025 National Security Strategy of the United States, dated November 2025 and released December 5, 2025, is the national-security document in which the United States made explicit judgments about the preservation or loss of European civilization.** ## Europe and Civilizational Erasure The strategy stated, “But this economic decline is eclipsed by the real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure.” It said that “should present trends continue, the continent will be unrecognizable in 20 years or less,” and continued, “We want Europe to remain European, to regain its civilizational self-confidence, and to abandon its failed focus on regulatory suffocation.” European governments and many American commentators contested those judgments. For [[wiki/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]] their significance is structural: an American national-security document claimed standing to say what counts as Europe remaining faithful to Western civilization. ## Relationships - **Speech that followed:** [[wiki/Marco Rubio|Marco Rubio]]'s Munich Security Conference address (February 14, 2026). - **Concepts:** [[wiki/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]] · [[wiki/Western Order Succession|Western Order Succession]] · [[wiki/Transatlantic Supersession|Transatlantic Supersession]]. - **Source article:** [[articles/war with empire/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]] in [[collections/War With Empire|War With Empire]]. ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > “But this economic decline is eclipsed by the real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure.” > **— The White House**, *National Security Strategy of the United States of America, November 2025* [[reminders/Civilization/Europe Faces the Prospect of Civilizational Erasure by The White House|Europe Faces the Prospect of Civilizational Erasure by The White House]] > “We want Europe to remain European, to regain its civilizational self-confidence, and to abandon its failed focus on regulatory suffocation.” > **— The White House**, *National Security Strategy of the United States of America, November 2025* [[reminders/Civilization/Europe Should Regain Its Civilizational Self-Confidence by The White House|Europe Should Regain Its Civilizational Self-Confidence by The White House]] ## Sources / Provenance - The White House, [National Security Strategy of the United States of America](https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-National-Security-Strategy.pdf) (November 2025; released December 5, 2025). - [Trump's national security strategy slams European allies](https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2025/12/05/trumps-national-security-strategy-slams-european-allies/) (Defense News, December 5, 2025).