Wolfowitz Doctrine

Such was the outcry that the document was hastily re-written under the close supervision of Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell before being officially released on April 16, 1992.

Many of its tenets re-emerged in the Bush Doctrine,[2] which was described by Senator Edward M. Kennedy as "a call for 21st century American imperialism that no other nation can or should accept.

In the initial phase of drafting the document, Khalilzad solicited the opinions of a wide cross-section of Pentagon insiders and outsiders, including Andrew Marshall, Richard Perle, and Wolfowitz's University of Chicago mentor, nuclear strategist Albert Wohlstetter.

Libby assented and within three days Khalilzad's draft was released to The New York Times by "an official who believed this post-cold war strategy debate should be carried out in the public domain.

In non-defense areas, we must account sufficiently for the interests of the advanced industrial nations to discourage them from challenging our leadership or seeking to overturn the established political and economic order.

One of the primary tasks we face today in shaping the future is carrying long standing alliances into the new era, and turning old enmities into new cooperative relationships.

The U.S. has a significant stake in promoting democratic consolidation and peaceful relations between Russia, Ukraine and the other republics of the former Soviet Union.The doctrine clarified the overall objectives in the Middle East and Southwest Asia.

As demonstrated by Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait, it remains fundamentally important to prevent a hegemon or alignment of powers from dominating the region.

Therefore, we must continue to play a role through enhanced deterrence and improved cooperative security.The April 16 release was more circumspect and it reaffirmed U.S. commitments to Israel as well as its Arab allies.