Facing Facts & Rolling Back Mythologies: The New National Security Strategy
By Peter Huessy
December 10, 2025
The new National Security Strategy is addressing some established foreign policy mythologies, a long overdue analysis. Though a relatively new way of laying out the U.S. strategy, it was very important that it do so.
The biggest drawback of the strategy is the lack of assessment of what security danger Russia poses to the U.S. and its allies even should the war in Ukraine be ended.
But the importance of the document is that it does address ten mythologies that have been largely conventional wisdom over the past many decades for the U.S. foreign policy establishment. These are rejected by the Trump administration with many additional details part of Secretary War Hegseth’s remarks at the Reagan Defense Forum on December 6th at the Simi Valley Reagan Library.
The most provocative section is the analysis of the direction which Europe has been moving---very low birthrates, massive and often illegal migration of people that reject western civilization, an absence of a commitment to defense spending, rejecting a robust nuclear deterrent and missile defense, (currently being adjusted), vastly too much regulation and government coercion (being partially undone with Brexit), and a deliberate policy of making energy expensive and scarce (also currently being partially rolled back).
https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2025/12/10/facing_facts_and_rolling_back_mythologies_the_new_national_security_strategy_1152378.html
