Documented by S. Brian Willson
[1] Vision For 2020, February 1997, by United States Space Command, Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado.
- "Dominating the space dimension of military operations to protect US interests and investment"
- Joint Vision 2010: "Dominant maneuver, precision engagement, full-dimensional protection, and focused logistics are enabled by information superiority and technological innovation. The end result of these enablers and concepts is FULL SPECTRUM DOMINANCE."
[2] Present Dangers: Crisis and Opportunity in American Foreign and Defense Policy, September 2000, eds. Robert Kagan and William Kristol. New American Century, 1150 17th Street NW, Suite 510, Washington, DC 20037.
Established in the spring of 1997, the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) is a nonprofit, educational organization whose goal is to promote American global leadership. The PNAC is an initiative of the New Citizenship Project (501c3); the New Citizenship Project’s chairman is William Kristol and its president is Gary Schmitt.
Rebuilding America’s Defenses: Strategies, Forces and Resources For A New Century, September 2000, by PNAC.
- "Global Pax Americana"
- "…blueprint for maintaining global U.S. pre-eminence…"
- "…demanding political leadership rather than that of the United Nations…"
- "New methods of attack–electronic, ‘non-lethal’ biological–will be more widely available…combat likely will take place in new dimensions, in space, cyberspace, and…the world of microbes.
[3] Strategic Energy Policy Challenges For the 21st Century, April 2000, by (James) Baker Institute For Public Policy, submitted to U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney.
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- "Iraq remains a destabilizing influence to…flow of oil…"
- Recommendations: "military intervention" and "de-fanging" Saddam
- "…the United States remains a prisoner of its energy dilemma"
- "…central dilemma" is "American people continue to demand plentiful and cheap energy without sacrifice or inconvenience." [emphasis SBW’s]
- "Chances are greater than at any point in the last two decades of an oil supply disruption."
[4] The National Security Strategy for the United States, delivered to Congress, Friday, September 20, 2002 by U.S. President George W. Bush.
- U.S. strength "beyond challenge" so as to "dissuade future military competition"
- "distinctly American internationalism"
- act "pre-emptively"
- "non-negotiable demands…[of] respect for private property"
