REBECCA GRANT: Trump’s 8 biggest national security wins of 2025

President Donald J. Trump is wielding America’s precision subject powerfulness and economical mightiness astir the globe similar nary different president earlier him. Here are 8 wins that person led to the 100% restoration of American leadership.  

1. Operation Midnight Hammer 

Seven B-2 bombers dropped specially designed precision munitions down the airshafts of Iran’s atomic weapons fabrication sites. Iran’s threshold atomic weapons capableness was obliterated. Yes, Israeli attacks had pounded Iran aerial defence sites, but it took implicit 100 U.S. warplanes and a monolithic span of air-refueling tankers to transportation retired the onslaught connected Jun. 22. Trump said consistently Iran would ne'er person a atomic weapon. "I don’t cognize if they took him earnestly until the nighttime the B-2 bombers went to Fordow," U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said later. The satellite is safer and this volition beryllium the standout subject determination of Trump’s presidency.  

2. Gaza ceasefire

Only Trump could person pulled this off. On Oct. 8, Trump announced that Israel and Hamas had agreed to a ceasefire and that Hamas would instrumentality hostages. Trump past assembled astir of the large satellite leaders successful Egypt to get down the deal. The Gaza woody vindicated Trump’s maneuver of relentless negotiation, personalized and elevated by the enactment of Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner. Much enactment remains, but the Abraham Accords process is backmost connected track.   

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3. The F-47 

After years of hold nether the Biden administration, Trump awarded the F-47 declaration to Boeing connected Mar. 21 to physique the Air Force’s sixth-generation fighter. Airpower is the backbone of America’s planetary power. This was proven successful World War II, from Midway to Normandy and crossed the globe. American airpower has shaped each struggle since then. With the F-47, Trump commits to dominance successful precocious motor technology, sixth-generation fighters and combat drone wingmen. Now if they could lone bargain the U.S. Navy its caller F/A-XX combatant level to widen craft bearer onslaught range.

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A B-2 stealth bomber flies implicit Whiteman Air Force Base successful May 2003 adjacent Knob Noster, Missouri. The bombers were utilized successful the caller Trump medication airstrikes targeting Iran's atomic program. (Joe McNally/Getty Images; AP/Markus Schreiber)

4. Venezuela and the Western Hemisphere 

Speaking of craft carriers, the accomplishment of the USS Gerald R. Ford successful the Caribbean connected Nov. 16 doubled down connected Trump’s determination to cleanable up the Western Hemisphere. Secretary of State Marco Rubio scored the archetypal triumph successful January erstwhile Panama restricted Chinese ownership interests astir the Panama Canal and agreed not renew its rank successful China’s Belt and Road scheme. Pressure connected Maduro’s cause boats and lipid tankers is meant to instrumentality down a unsafe cartel. This is besides the opening of a pitched conflict for the Western Hemisphere. Victory comes erstwhile the narco-terrorists are defanged and the U.S., not China, is the concern spouse of choice.  

5. Securing the border

The numbers talk. In October 2025, Customs and Border Patrol reported 30,573 full encounters astatine borders nationwide, a fig 92% below the highest of the Biden administration’s 370,883 encounters successful December 2024. That’s closed the pipeline for panic ticker database individuals, and those mysterious Chinese crossings, too. 

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6. Prosperity for Ukraine 

In a implicit power from the strategical stagnation of the Biden years, Trump’s dealmaking has laid retired a way to prosperity for Ukraine. Step 1 was the associated task connected strategical minerals signed April 30. Now the bid plans negotiated by Witkoff see accelerated entree for Ukraine to the European Union’s communal market, a extremity agelong sought by Ukraine, positive a atom shipping way via the Black Sea and entree to energy from the immense Zaporizhzhia atomic powerfulness plant. Can an AI information halfway beryllium acold behind? 

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7. Putting AI connected the nationalist information agenda

Speaking of which, Trump has rewritten the criteria for nationalist information by roping successful American tech titans. Americans cannot beryllium unafraid unless the U.S. AI tech stack wins the contention for planetary primacy. We are up of China but not by much. Part of Trump’s haul of $20 trillion successful overseas concern goes to tech infrastructure; helium besides recognizes our U.S. tech giants indispensable beryllium escaped to triumph their planetary marketplace shares, from chips to information centers to AI applications. Only they person the currency to vie with China’s state-funded innovators.  

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8 Nigeria

ISIS mislaid their alleged "caliphate" successful Syria and Iraq successful 2019, but the menace is not gone. ISIS is simply a planetary network. Regard the Dec. 25 strikes against ISIS terrorists successful Sokoto State, Nigeria, arsenic portion of a semipermanent strategy of batting down ISIS strongholds. U.S. forces had already carried retired implicit 80 operations against ISIS targets successful Syria conscionable since July 2025 alone. "We volition basal retired and destruct violent jihadists wherever they hide," said Admiral Brad Cooper, commander, United States Central Command. And that was earlier Operation Hawkeye Strike deed 70 ISIS targets successful Syria connected Dec. 19. This is simply a warfare that America volition proceed to pb against radicalism, antisemitism and terror.  

Notice what is not connected this list: China. The Pentagon’s yearly study connected China, released Dec. 24, says the U.S. homeland is progressively susceptible owed to China’s subject build-up. China is connected the mode to 9 craft carriers and 1,000 atomic warheads. Trump’s argumentation has been to spell quiescent and scope for economical coexistence portion moving to reset commercialized deals and bring captious manufacturing backmost home. He’s scored points, but lone the afloat build-out of much Navy ships, a stronger Space Force, the Golden Dome rocket defenses and a full batch of factories volition present the win.  

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