Richard Perle was the chairman of the committee during the initial years of the George W. Bush administration.
Excerpt of Objectives and Scope of Activities from charter:
1. The Defense Policy Board will serve the public interest by providing the Secretary of Defense, Deputy Secretary and Under Secretary for Policy with independent, informed advice and opinion concerning major matters of defense policy. It will focus upon long-term, enduring issues central to strategic planning for the Department of Defense and will be responsible for research and analysis of topics, long or short range, addressed to it by the Secretary of Defense, Deputy Secretary and Under Secretary for Policy.
Announcements for upcoming meetings of the DPBAC are published in the Federal Register.
External links and references
DPB charter (pdf) (http://www.odam.osd.mil/omp/pdf/412.pdf)
definition of DoD federal advisory committee (http://www.odam.osd.mil/omp/DoD_FACA.htm)
Office of Administration and Management of the Department of Defense (http://www.odam.osd.mil/)
And that propaganda is in the hands of a notorious troika of Likudnik agents and followers of the pro-fascist Vladimir Jabotinsky within the Defense Department: Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Douglas J. Feith, DefensePolicyBoard Chairman Richard Perle, and Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz.
Defense Department sources have told EIR that the troika runs rings around Rumsfeld, as they fight to make U.S. policy identical to the aims of Israeli war criminal Ariel Sharon: ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians, preemptive war against Iran and Iraq; and the breakup of Saudi Arabia and seizure of its oil fields.
By charter, the DefensePolicyBoard must announce its meetings 15 days in advance in the Federal register, and "all procedures for closed meetings will be followed scrupulously." After the July 10-11 debacle, officials in the Pentagon and the State Dept. will be be watching more carefully what the Perle gang is up to.
Defense companies are awarded contracts for numerous reasons; there is nothing to indicate that serving on the DefensePolicyBoard confers a decisive advantage to firms with which a member is associated.
According to its charter, the board was set up in 1985 to provide the Secretary of Defense "with independent, informed advice and opinion concerning major matters of defensepolicy." The members are selected by and report to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy--currently Douglas Feith, a former Reagan administration official.
The board, whose list of members reads like a who's who of former high-level government and military officials, focuses on long-term policy issues such as the strategic implications of defensepolicies and tactical considerations, including what types of weapons the military should develop.
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