National Security Strategy 2025 identifies the main challenges
the UK faces in an era of radical uncertainty and sets out a new
Strategic Framework covering all aspects of national security and
international policy.
National Security Strategy 2025:
Security for the British People in a Dangerous World
Details
The purpose of the National Security Strategy 2025: Security for
the British People in a Dangerous World (NSS 2025) is to identify
the main challenges we face as a nation in an era of radical
uncertainty, to describe the key principles underlying the
government's approach to these challenges, and to explain the
actions the government will be taking in response.
The Strategic Context describes an intensification of great power
competition and greater prospect of geopolitical volatility.
These include: confrontation with adversaries (whether indirect
or, potentially, directly); competition with other states (both
strategic and systematic); and cooperation (which will become
harder but arguably even more important than ever before).
The Strategic Framework sets out principles to guide the UK's
response to this context.
- Security at Home - defending our territory, making the
UK a harder target and building resilience to future threats.
Delivering on the security and resilience of our homeland and
people, both in the physical and online world, is critical for
delivering economic growth and this Government's missions to
improve the lives of the British people.
- Strength Abroad - bolstering collective security,
renewing and refreshing key alliances and developing new
partnerships in new domains. Using all the levers of state and
national power to achieve influence abroad in a more challenging
international environment.
- Increasing sovereign and asymmetric capabilities -
rebuilding our defence industrial base, developing and
maintaining sovereign capabilities and pursuing asymmetric
strategies. Ensuring our national security agenda aligns with our
mission to grow the economy and increase opportunity for the
British people by reducing our dependence on others and their
ability to coerce us.
