The Only War the White House Is Ready for Is Culture War

The Only War the White House Is Ready for Is Culture War

The new U.S. National Security Strategy is a moral and strategic disaster.

Trump, Hegseth, Rubio, and other officials sit at a table with papers and namecards in front of them. Hegseth has one hand raised and his mouth open as he speaks. Beside him, Trump is blinking and frowning. December 8, 2025, 1:16 PM

The Trump administration’s National Security Strategy isn’t a strategy. Despite its pedantic condescension of explaining that “a ‘strategy’ is a concrete, realistic plan that explains the essential connection between ends and means ,” the document, released on Dec. 5, fails to meet that standard itself. This “strategy” is instead a statement of values. And those values are vandalism against the very things that have made t