Donald Trump’s late-November National Security Strategy marks a sharp ideological and geopolitical shift, one that Colombo-based security analyst Nilanthan Niruthan says places unprecedented pressure on India to abandon strategic ambiguity. In an interview to the Gist , the executive director of the Centre for Law and Security Studies argued that the document is “as much a cultural manifesto as it is a geopolitical roadmap,” foregrounding civilizational identity, patriotism, and a repudiation of post-Cold War elite-driven foreign policy.

Beyond its tone, the document outlines several strategic departures. It elevates the Western Hemisphere as Washington’s core priority, downscales U.S. involvement in the Middle East in light of reduced energy dependence, and pointedly critiques NATO’s “

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