Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2002 09:39:12 -0400
From: carol@carolmoore.net (Carol Moore)
Subject: [libs4peace] Wolfowitz Imperialism Memo


The military later rejected undersecretary of defense for policy Paul Wolfowitz's
1992 pro-imperialism memo described below. But today Wolfowitz is Deputy Secretary
of Defense, and may end up head of defense if Rumsfeld is moved to, say, head of
Homeland Defense.  http://www.defenselink.mil/bios/depsecdef_bio.html  Then the
military will have to bow to his imperialist ambitions.  Remember, those fearful of
criticizing America, POWER CORRUPTS -- including US military power.  If we don't
tell that truth to the American people our efforts are useless...
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http://www.yale.edu/strattech/92dpg.html
(Also includes article where military rejects some of the plan)
The Washington Post
March 11, 1992, Wednesday, Final Edition

KEEPING THE U.S. FIRST; PENTAGON WOULD PRECLUDE A RIVAL SUPERPOWER
Barton Gellman, Washington Post Staff Writer

In a classified blueprint intended to help "set te nation's direction for the next
century," the Defense Department calls for concerted efforts to  preserve American
global military supremacy and to thwart the emergence of a rival superpower in
Europe, Asia or the former Soviet Union. The 46-page memorandum describes itself as
"definitive guidance from the Secretary of Defense" for preparation of defense
budgets for fiscal 1994 through 1999. It defies the predictions of some outside
analysts that the Pentagon would relax resistanceto further budget cuts after the
turmoil of the election year.


Instead it mounts a detailed argument for maintaining the current "baseforce" of
1.6 million active-duty troops to the end of the decade and beyond.


Though noting that "the passing of the Cold War reduces pressure for U.S. military
involvement in every potential regional or local conflict," the document argues not
only for preserving but expanding the most demanding American commitments and for
resisting efforts by key allies to provide their own security.


In particular, the document raises the prospects of "a unilateral U.S. defense
guarantee" to Eastern Europe, "preferably in cooperation with other NATO states,"
and contemplates use of American military power to preempt or punish use of
nuclear, biological or chemical weapons, "even in conflicts that otherwise do not
directly engage U.S. interests."


The memo was drafted under supervision of Paul Wolfowitz, undersecretary for
policy. Although it is not supplied to Congress and was not intended for public
release, the document represents a response at the highest levels of the Pentagon
to a growing call in the American political debate for retrenchment from
commitments abroad. First reported Sunday in the New York Times, it provides the
rationale for U.S. involvement around the world as "a constant fixture" in an era
of fundamental change.

The central strategy of the Pentagon framework is to "establish and protect a new
order" that accounts "sufficiently for the interests of the advanced indath