National Security Strategy

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The Gold Institute for International Strategy (GIIS) unveiled its 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS) during a major two-day conference in downtown Washington, D.C., led by GIIS Chairman Michael T. Flynn and President Eli M. Gold. The event titled “The Importance of Strategic Partnerships” brought together over fifty foreign delegations, including numerous senior officials, diplomats, and military leaders, to emphasize the centrality of alliances in addressing global threats and opportunities.

Key Conference Highlights:

• Congressional Leadership. Current and former members of Congress in attendance and participating included Scott Perry, Rudy Yakym, Eli Crane, Brian Mast and Trent Franks. Chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Relations, addressed the event, speaking on the imperative of U.S. allies and partners to confront shared threats and opportunities.

• Strategic Alliances Focus: The conference included panels on energy security, the power of alternative media, and the evolving landscape to Africa’s strategic partnerships. Multiple panels examined efforts to strengthen U.S. alliances, with representatives from countries such as Israel, Egypt, the Netherlands, South Korea, Tunisia, and Uganda stressing the importance of robust partnerships with the United States.

• Unveiling of the 2025 NSS: The conference formally presented GIIS’s 2025 National Security Strategy, described as a roadmap to restore American strength and reaffirm the necessity for Washinton’s global leadership role, particularly against challenges from China, Russia, Iran, and other authoritarian regimes.

• Penetration of U.S. Institutions: The NSS states that America’s leading state and sub-state adversaries have widely and deeply penetrated key American institutions, including U.S. Government agencies, resulting in policy “convergence” (alignment) with China, Russia, and Iran, particularly under the Obama and Biden administrations.

GIIS leaders argue that threats to national security arise from both left and right spheres of American politics, citing examples of both “woke left” and “woke right” elements adopting foreign policy stances favorable to U.S. adversaries—such as advocating for multi-polarity, balance of power, or isolationism, which constitute frontal assaults on President Trump’s “peace through strength” policy agenda and his stated objective that “America first, does not mean America alone.”

• Strategic Assessments: A major recommendation is for the U.S. Department of Defense to resume comprehensive “net assessments”—analytical products for top U.S. leadership that that underpin effective national security strategy.

Leadership Statements:

• GIIS Chairman Flynn articulated the importance of restoring American strategic coherence and alliance-building, emphasizing collaborative approaches to global threats. President Eli Gold underscored GIIS’s mission to provide actionable policy recommendations and foster informed international dialogue.