The Project for the New American Century, or PNAC, is a Washington, DC, USA based think tank. The group was established in spring 1997 as a non-profit organization with the goal of promoting "American global leadership". The chairman is William Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard and FOX News regular. The group is an initiative of the New Citizenship Project, a non-profit 501c3 organization that is funded by the Sarah Scaife Foundation, the John M. Olin Foundation and the Bradley Foundation. [1] Aerial photo (looking NW) of the Washington Monument and the White House in Washington, DC. Washington, D.C., officially the District of Columbia (also known as D.C.; Washington; the Nations Capital; the District; and, historically, the Federal City) is the capital city and administrative district of the United... This article is about the institution. ... 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A non-profit organization (often called non-profit org or simply non-profit or not-for-profit) can be seen as an organization that doesnt have a goal to make a profit. ... William Kristol featured on BBC Newsnight William Bill Kristol (born December 23, 1952 in New York City) is an American political commentator and columnist. ... The Weekly Standard is an American Conservative political magazine published 48 times per year. ... Fox News Channel tells its viewers We Report, You Decide The Fox News Channel is a U.S. cable and satellite news channel. ... New Citizenship Project (also New Citizenship Project, Inc. ... 501C3 refers to section 501(c)(3) of the United States Internal Revenue Code that exempts payment of federal income taxes for groups that are organized for charitable, religious, scientific, literary or educational purposes. ... The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is a large and influential right-wing foundation with about half a billion US dollars in assets. ...

Present and former members include several prominent members of the Republican Party and Bush Administration, including Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Jeb Bush, Richard Perle, Richard Armitage, Dick Cheney, Lewis Libby, William J. Bennett, Zalmay Khalilzad, and Ellen Bork, the wife of Robert Bork. A large number of its ideas and its members are associated with the neoconservative movement. PNAC has seven full-time staff members, in addition to its board of directors. The Republican Party, often called the GOP (for Grand Old Party, although one early citation described it as the Gallant Old Party) [1], is one of the two major political parties in the United States. ... George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd and current President of the United States and a former Governor of the State of Texas. ... Donald Henry Rumsfeld (born July 9, 1932) has been the Secretary of Defense of the United States since January 20, 2001, under President George W. Bush. ... Paul Dundes Wolfowitz (born December 22, 1943) is an American academic and political figure. ... John Ellis Jeb Bush (born February 11, 1953), a Republican, is the forty-third and current Governor of Florida. ... Richard Perle Richard Norman Perle (born September 16, 1941 in New York City), is an American political advisor who served the Reagan administration as an assistant Secretary of Defense and served on the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee from 1987 to 2004. ... Richard Lee Armitage (born April 26, 1945) is the current United States Deputy Secretary of State, the second-in-command at the State Department. ... Richard Bruce Cheney (born January 30, 1941), widely known as Dick Cheney, is an American politician and businessman affiliated with the U.S. Republican Party. ... I. Lewis Scooter Libby Irving Lewis Scooter Libby, Jr. ... This article is about William Bennett the US politician. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Ellen Bork is deputy director at the Project for the New American Century, a foreign policy organization based in Washington, D.C., and the wife of Robert Bork, a former judge on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals and failed nominee to the Supreme Court. ... Robert Bork Robert Heron Bork (born March 1, 1927 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a conservative American legal scholar and former judge who advocates the judicial philosophy of originalism. ... Neoconservatism is a somewhat controversial term referring to the political goals and ideology of the new conservatives (ultraconservative) in the United States. ...

The PNAC is a controversial organization. Some have raised concerns that the project has been proposing military and economic domination of land, space, and cyberspace by the United States, so as to establish American dominance in world affairs (Pax Americana) for the future—hence the term "the New American Century", based on the idea that the 20th century was the American Century. Some analysts argue that the U.S. war against Iraq, commenced in March of 2003 under the code name Operation Iraqi Freedom, is the first major step toward implementing these objectives. Outer space (also called just space) as a name for a region, refers to the relatively empty parts of the Universe, outside the atmospheres of celestial bodies. ... Cyberspace, a metaphoric abstraction used in philosophy and computing, is a (virtual) reality which represents the Noosphere/World 2 both inside computers and on computer networks. ... The term Pax Americana (Latin: American Peace) denotes the period of relative peace in the Western world since the end of World War II in 1945, coinciding with the dominant military and economic position of the United States. ... The American Century is a term sometimes used for the 20th century. ... For other uses of the term, see Iraq war (disambiguation) The 2003 invasion of Iraq (also called the 2nd or 3rd Persian Gulf War) began on March 20, 2003, when forces belonging primarily to the United States and the United Kingdom invaded Iraq arguably without the explicit backing of the...

Core views and beliefs

The PNAC website [2] states the group's "fundamental propositions", which are

• "American leadership is good both for America and for the world"
• "such leadership requires military strength, diplomatic energy and commitment to moral principle"
• "too few political leaders today are making the case for global leadership."

The PNAC also made a statement of principles at their 1997 inception. 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

As the 20th century draws to a close, the United States stands as the world's preeminent power. Having led the West to victory in the Cold War, America faces an opportunity and a challenge: Does the United States have the vision to build upon the achievements of past decades? Does the United States have the resolve to shape a new century favorable to American principles and interests?

The PNAC advocates "a policy of military strength and moral clarity" which includes:

• A significant increase of U.S. defense spending.
• Strengthening ties with the U.S.'s allies and to challenge regimes hostile to U.S. interests and values.
• Promoting the cause of political and economic freedom outside the U.S.
• Preserving and extending an international order friendly to U.S. security, prosperity, and principles.

The PNAC and its members had long called for the United States to abandon the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty between the US and the Soviet Union, from which the US withdrew in 2002. The PNAC also proposes to control the new "international commons" of space and "cyberspace" and pave the way for the creation of a new military service—U.S. Space Forces—with the mission of space control. In 1998, Donald Rumsfeld chaired a bipartisan commission on the US Ballistic Missile Threat towards advancement of these goals. The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (or ABM treaty) was a treaty between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the limitation of the anti-ballistic missile (ABM) systems used in defending areas against missile-delivered nuclear weapons. ... Outer space (also called just space) as a name for a region, refers to the relatively empty parts of the Universe, outside the atmospheres of celestial bodies. ... Cyberspace, a metaphoric abstraction used in philosophy and computing, is a (virtual) reality which represents the Noosphere/World 2 both inside computers and on computer networks. ... 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... In a two-party system (such as in the United States), bipartisan refers to any bill, act, resolution, or any other action of a political body in which both of the major political parties are in agreement. ... Polish missile wz. ...

Rebuilding America's Defenses

In September 2000, the PNAC issued a 90-page report entitled Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategies, Forces, And Resources For A New Century, and proceeding "from the belief that America should seek to preserve and extend its position of global leadership by maintaining the preeminence of U.S. military forces." The report has been the subject of much analysis and criticism. This article is about the year 2000. ...

The group states that when diplomacy or sanctions fail, the United States must be prepared to take military action. PNAC argues that the current Cold War deployment of forces is obsolete and that force deployment must reflect the post-Cold War duties that the US forces have been called upon to perform. Constabulary duties such as peace keeping in the Balkans and the enforcement of the No Fly Zones in Iraq have put a strain upon and reduced the readiness of US forces. The PNAC recommends the forward redeployment of US forces at new strategically placed permanent military bases. Permanent bases ease the strain on US forces, allowing readiness to be maintained and the carrier fleet to be reduced. Furthermore the military should be enlarged, equipped and trained for the peacekeeping role it is increasingly called upon to fulfill. This global police force would have the power to keep law and order around the world in accordance with United States interests. The PNAC also advocates that the United States government should capitalize on its military and economic superiority to gain unchallengeable superiority through all means necessary, including military force. For the generic term for a high-tension rivalry between countries, see cold war (war). ... Categories: Stub | 2003 Iraq conflict ... A military base is an isolated facility, settlement, or installation that shelters military equipment and personnel. ...

Position on Iraq

The 2000 Rebuilding America's Defenses report recommends improved planning and deployment in order to reduce the strain caused by enforcing the No Fly Zones and to free up an aircraft carrier. It uses the U.S.'s Gulf War success as an example of why the world requires American military might. Looking ahead, the report states "while the unresolved conflict in Iraq provides the immediate justification [for US military presence], the need for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein" and "Over the long term, Iran may well prove as large a threat to U.S. interests in the Gulf as Iraq has. And even should U.S.-Iranian relations improve, retaining forward-based forces in the region would still be an essential element in U.S. security strategy given the longstanding American interests in the region". This article is about the year 2000. ... An aircraft carrier is a warship whose main role is to deploy and recover aircraft—in effect acting as a sea-going airbase. ... Operation Desert Storm C Company, 1st Battalion, The Staffordshire Regiment, 1st UK Armoured Division The 1991 Gulf War was a conflict between Iraq and a coalition force of 34 nations mandated by the United Nations and led by the United States. ...

Controversy

The PNAC has been the subject of considerable criticism and controversy, both among members of the left and right. Critics dispute the premise that American "world leadership" is desirable for the world or even for America. The PNAC's harshest critics claim that it represents a disturbingly ambitious, borderline imperial agenda of global U.S. military expansionism and dominance. Critics of the U.S.'s poor international relations take umbrage at the PNAC's unashamed position of maintaining the U.S.'s privileged position as sole world superpower. Some critics even assert that the fall of the Soviet Union indicates an end to the era of 'superpowers' and therefore any concept of military hegemony or ascendancy are overrated. Military might is not power in itself; it requires huge financial commitments, strong domestic and international support plus skillful management to be considered worthwhile. PNAC position papers and other documents contain few references on building or maintaining any of these requirements. In politics, left-wing or leftism are terms that refer to the segment of the political spectrum typically associated with any of several strains of socialism, social democracy, or liberalism (especially but not exclusively in the American sense of the word), or with opposition to right-wing politics. ... In politics, right-wing, the political right, or simply the right, are terms which refer, with no particular precision, to the segment of the political spectrum in opposition to left-wing politics. ... Imperial is a term that is used to describe something that relates to an Empire, Emperor, or the concept of Imperialism. ... A superpower is a state with the ability to influence events and project power on a super scale. ...

Supporters of the project reply that the PNAC's goals are not fundamentally different to other conservative foreign policy assessments of the past. American conservatives have traditionally favored a militarily strong United States, and advocated the country take aggressive positions when its interests are threatened. Supporters thus see the PNAC as the target of unfair conspiracy theories, mainly motivated by left wing politics. Conservatism or political conservatism is any of several historically related political philosophies or political ideologies. ... A foreign policy is a set of political goals that seeks to outline how a particular country will interact with the other countries of the world. ... A conspiracy theory is a theory that defies common historical or current understanding of events, under the claim that those events are the result of manipulations by two or more individuals or various secretive powers or conspiracies. ... In politics, left-wing, political left, leftism, or simply the left, are terms that refer (with no particular precision) to the segment of the political spectrum typically associated with any of several strains of socialism, social democracy, or liberalism (especially but not exclusively in the American sense of the word...

Criticisms of position on Iraq

In 1998, following marked Iraqi unwillingness to co-operate with UN weapons inspections, members of the PNAC including Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz wrote to the president, Bill Clinton, urging him to remove Saddam Hussein from power using US diplomatic, political and military power. The letter argued that Saddam would pose a threat to the U.S., its Middle-East allies and oil resources in the region if he succeeded in obtaining Weapons of Mass Destruction. The letter also stated "American policy cannot continue to be crippled by a misguided insistence on unanimity in the UN Security Council." The letter argues that an Iraq war would be justified by Saddam Hussein's defiance of UN "containment" policy and his persistent threat to U.S. interests. 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... The United Nations, or UN, is an international organization established in 1945. ... Donald Henry Rumsfeld (born July 9, 1932) has been the Secretary of Defense of the United States since January 20, 2001, under President George W. Bush. ... Paul Dundes Wolfowitz (born December 22, 1943) is an American academic and political figure. ... William Jefferson Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946) was the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. ... Saddam Hussein Saddām Hussein ʻAbd al-Majīd al-Tikrīt, sometimes spelled Husayn or Hussain; (Arabic صدام حسين عبد المجيد التكريتي; born April 28, 1937 ) was President of Iraq from 1979 until his removal and capture during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. ... Weapons of mass destruction (WMD) generally include nuclear, biological, chemical and, increasingly, radiological weapons. ... A session of the Security Council in progress The United Nations Security Council is the most powerful organ of the United Nations. ... Saddam Hussein Saddām Hussein ʻAbd al-Majīd al-Tikrīt, sometimes spelled Husayn or Hussain; (Arabic صدام حسين عبد المجيد التكريتي; born April 28, 1937 ) was President of Iraq from 1979 until his removal and capture during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. ...

Many critics of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq make the claim that the U.S.'s "bullying" of the international community into supporting the 2003 Iraq war, and the fact that the war went ahead despite much international criticism, stem from the positions of prominent neo-conservatives in the Bush administration. Some critics of the Bush administration see the 1998 letter to President Clinton as a "smoking gun" [3], showing that a second Gulf War was a foregone conclusion. These critics see the letter as evidence of Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and Perle's opinions, five years prior to the Iraq invasion. Rory Bremner, citing the letter, said "that's what they want—regime change—and nothing, not Blair, not the UN, not Hans Blix, not France, Germany, Russia, China, not the threat of terrorism, or Arab reservations, or lack of evidence or the Peace March, not even our own brave Jack Straw is going to stand in their way." [4] George Monbiot, citing the letter, said "to pretend that this battle begins and ends in Iraq requires a wilful denial of the context in which it occurs. That context is a blunt attempt by the superpower to reshape the world to suit itself." [5] The term international community can refer to either: All the lands represented in United Nations. ... This article describes the positions of world governments prior to the actual initiation of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and not their current positions as they may have changed since then. ... Rory Bremner FKC (born April 6, 1961) is a British impressionist and comedian, born in Edinburgh, in Scotland, noted for his political satire. ... Jack Straw The Right Honourable John Whitaker Jack Straw (born August 3, 1946, Buckhurst Hill) is a British Labour Party politician. ... George Monbiot. ...

Some proponents of the war claim it was not a foregone conclusion unless one assumed that Saddam would continue to be intransigent and that France, Russia, Germany and China would continue to block unanimity on the UN security council. They argue that opposition on the UN security council encouraged Saddam in his belief that his delaying tactics would work and the sanctions would eventually be lifted. In 2003, the US led an invasion of Iraq, despite failing to obtain a second UN Security Council resolution on the matter. 2003(MMIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... In March 2003 the US government announced that diplomacy has failed and that it would proceed with a coalition of the willing to rid Iraq of its alleged weapons of mass destruction. The 2003 Iraq war officially started a few days later. ...

A line frequently quoted from Rebuilding America's Defenses famously refers to the possibility of a "catastrophic and catalyzing event — like a new Pearl Harbor" (page 51). This quote is part of a discussion about military use of information technologies, where the report asserts that full transformation to new technologies is likely to be a slow process unless some "catalyzing" event causes the military to upgrade more quickly. Despite this context, some opponents of the Bush administration use this quote as evidence for their belief in the conspiracy theory that the US Government was complicit in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. See the article 9/11 conspiracy theories for further information on this topic. Many critics also claim that the PNAC believed this "new Pearl Harbor" would justify war on Iraq, but there is no evidence in the report to back up this assertion. This proposed logo for a U.S. government agency was dropped due to fears that its Masonic symbolism would provoke conspiracy theories. ... The September 11, 2001 attacks were a series of suicide attacks against civilians of the United States conducted on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. ... According to the final report of the 9-11 Commission, on 11 September 2001, nineteen al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four planes in the Eastern United States. ...

Bush administration

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Other members

• Gary Bauer, former presidential candidate, president of American Values
• William J. Bennett, former Secretary of Education and Drug Czar, co-founder of Empower America, author of the Book of Virtues
• Ellen Bork, deputy director of PNAC, and wife of failed Reagan Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork
• Rudy Boschwitz
• Jeb Bush, governor of Florida
• Eliot A. Cohen, professor of strategic studies at Johns Hopkins University
• Thomas Donnelly, director of communications, Lockheed Martin
• Steve Forbes, multi-billionaire publisher of Forbes Magazine, former presidential candidate
• Aaron Friedberg, director of the Center of International Studies
• Frank Gaffney, columnist, founder of Center for Security Policy
• Reuel Marc Gerecht, director of the Middle East Initiative
• Fred Ikle, Center for Strategic and International Studies
• Donald Kagan, Yale University professor, conservative columnist with various State Department ties
• Jeane Kirkpatrick, former U.S. ambassador
• Charles Krauthammer
• William Kristol, a PNAC founder and chairman, editor of the Weekly Standard
• Christopher Maletz
• Daniel McKivergan
• Richard Perle, a PNAC founder, formerly of the Defense Policy Board
• Norman Podhoretz, Hudson Institute
• Dan Quayle, former vice-president
• Stephen Rosen, Beton Michael Kaneb Professor of National Security and Military Affairs, Harvard University
• Henry Rowen, former president of Rand Corporation
• Gary Schmitt
• Vin Weber, former congressman, lobbyist, vice-chairman of Empower America
• George Weigel, political commentator
• R. James Woolsey, former director of the CIA for Bill Clinton, vice-president at Booz Allen & Hamilton

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See also

• American Century
• Committee for the Liberation of Iraq
• Office of Special Plans

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External links

• BBC.co.uk (ram video file) - Project for New American Century's Tom Donnelly advocating war in Iraq (September, 2002)
• NewAmericanCentury.org - PNAC homepage
• NewAmericanCentury.org (pdf) - 'Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategies, Forces and Resources for a New Century' (September, 2000)
• NewAmericanCentury.org - PNAC 'open letter' to President Bill Clinton (January 16, 1998)
• NPR.org - NPR interview with PNAC chairman William Kristol (audio, April 1, 2003)
• NPR.org - 'An American Empire?' (audio interview, September 10, 2001)
• NPR.org - 'The U.S. As an Empire, Revisited' (audio interview, September 10, 2002)
• SourceWatch.org - PNAC page at Sourcewatch (a wiki-project of the Center for Media and Democracy)

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Analysis of PNAC

• BBC.co.uk - 'Analysis: Power Americana: The US appears to be heading to war with Iraq whatever happens, with implications for the future conduct of American foreign policy', Paul Reynolds, BBC News Online world affairs correspondent (March 2, 2003)
• Channel4.com (ram video file) - Rory Bremner (alleges decision to invade Iraq made in 1998 by PNAC members)
• Guardian.co.uk - 'Could Tony Blair look at the internet now, please? Why is the British Prime Minister the only person who seems to be unaware of the US hawks' agenda', Terry Jones (March 2, 2003)
• Guardian.co.uk - 'Why look in the crystal ball?' Terry Jones (May 4, 2003)
• NewAmericanEmpire.org - 'Project for the New American Empire' (spoof)
• OpEdNews.com - PNAC info and sources (members and their letters)
• PBS.org - 'Frontline: the war behind closed doors: analyses, PBS
• PNAC.info - 'Exposing the Project for the New American Century: An effort to investigate, analyze, and expose the Project for the New American Century, and its plan'
• TruthOut.org - 'New York, you've been used', William Rivers Pitt, (questioning PNAC)
• WSWS.org - 'Meacher: terrorism a pretext for conquest: British official charges US "stood down" on 9/11', Bill Vann (September 8, 2003) alleges that the decision to invade Iraq was made in 1998 by PNAC members (interpretation of Michael Meacher, former cabinet minister for Tony Blair)