Overview
The December 2017 National Security Strategy set an America First strategic framework for diplomacy, defense, and economic competition. The PDF remains on the Trump White House archives. It is a strategy document, not a statute or treaty.
Full article
On December 18, 2017, the administration published the National Security Strategy of the United States. The archived PDF is the official public text of that strategy.
Key points
- Published December 18, 2017.
- PDF hosted on trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov.
- Addresses great-power competition, border security, and economic security themes.
- Strategy documents guide policy; statutes and orders remain separately binding.
- Use the archived PDF as the authoritative first-term NSS text.
Official record
The archived NSS PDF on trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov is the linked official source.
Source attribution: View original official record