Strategy, Forces and Resources
For a New Century
A Report of
The Project for the New American Century
September 2000
from page 50 and 51:
''(...)Any serious effort at transformation must occur within the larger framework of U.S. national security strategy, military missions and defense budgets. The United States cannot simply declare a “strategic pause” while experimenting with new technologies and operational concepts. Nor can it choose to pursue a transformation strategy that would decouple American and allied interests.
A transformation strategy that solely pursued capabilities for projecting force from the United States, for example, and sacrificed forward basing and presence, would be at odds with larger American policy goals and would trouble American allies.
Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor. (...)''
Members of the The Project for the New American Century
(bold = member of the Bush administration at 9/11 or Governors):
Elliott Abrams, Gary Bauer, William J. Bennett, Jeb Bush (who's company handled security on 9/11 of the World Trade Center), Dick Cheney, Eliot A. Cohen, Midge Decter, Paula Dobriansky,
Steve Forbes, Aaron Friedberg, Francis Fukuyama, Frank Gaffney, Fred C. Ikle, Donald Kagan,
Zalmay Khalilzad, I. Lewis Libby, Norman Podhoretz, Dan Quayle, Peter W. Rodman,
Stephen P. Rosen, Henry S. Rowen, Donald Rumsfeld, Vin Weber, George Weigel, Paul Wolfowitz
Interesting constellation of people and events!?
One year after publication of this document 2 planes crashed into the World Trade Center - creating a 'catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor.'
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