4. Department of Defense · Minor
Characterize regional irregular threats in the National Security Strategy
Printed page 121 4. Department of Defense
“Characterize the state and nonstate irregular threats facing the U.S. by region in the National Security Strategy.”
What has happened
- Not started
The National Security Strategy was reissued inside the window and does not do this. Read in full, the 2025 National Security Strategy contains no occurrence of the word "irregular". It is organized by region - the Western Hemisphere, the Indo-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East - but characterizes the threats in each in economic, diplomatic and conventional-military terms, not as state and nonstate irregular threats.
Research log
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Research notes
The whitehouse.gov PDF was read in full; the finding is an absence in the very document the Quote names, which is why the Evidence is attached to a not started event.
- Paired with #245, which measures a different failure of the same document.
- Checked against the 2026 National Defense Strategy on 2026-09-03, which does not reach this ask. This Quote’s instrument is the National Security Strategy, and that document was already read in full for the event above. The Defense Strategy was read on the same day for #246, #248 and #251 and is recorded here only because it is suggestive and must not be mistaken for evidence: it is organized regionally in both its threat chapter (Homeland and Hemisphere, PRC, Russia, Iran, DPRK) and its burden-sharing line of effort (Western Hemisphere, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Korean Peninsula), it repeatedly says “as the NSS directs” and “as the NSS lays out” — so an NSS exists and is being followed — and it uses the word “irregular” zero times. None of that moves this item, whose object is the National Security Strategy’s own treatment.
- Action
- issue
- Object
- National Security Strategy treatment of irregular threats
- ID
- 247