December 13, 2025
The Trump Doctrine
By Kenneth R. Timmerman
They're calling it the "Trump Doctrine."
It's the national security "pivot" from regions far-far away, to taking care of business right here in our own backyard.
This document setting out America's national security priorities and how to accomplish them is written in Trump's own very distinctive voice. Even the way it puts the question is pure Trump. From page 2:
"1) What should the United States want?
"2) What are our available means to get it?
"3) How can we connect ends and means into a viable National Security Strategy?"
I guarantee you, this is not the way policy wonks think. Or think tankers think. Or National Security Council staffers think and express themselves. This is Donald J. Trump through and through: clear, concise, to the point, without the peppermint stick ice cream.
And what does it say?
Well, for starters, gone are the great power adversaries and the doom and gloom of the Biden era, which demonized Russia and China.
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https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/12/the_trump_doctrine.html
