PARIS - The Obama administration has at last issued its own National Security Strategy, a 52-page document that takes the place of the strategy statements published by the George W. Bush administration, beginning in 2002, notable for their belligerence in proclaiming America's policy priority to be the "defeat" of "terrorism," their assertion of unilateral pursuit of American interests, and expressed determination to preempt by war any threat to the United States when this might be deemed necessary, and to prevent the emergence of any rival superpower. These Bush documents expressed both anger at the wound inflicted on the United States by al-Qaida, and a reassertion of triumphalism not heard since the defeat in Vietnam. They were primarily military in tone and preoccupation at a time w...
Consider the following hypothetical situation. In September 2005, the president is informed by his CIA director that they have concluded that there is a one in two chance that North Korea will transfer five nuclear bombs to Osama bin Laden within the next month, and that, after the transfer, despite our best efforts, the CIA judges that it is more likely than not that bin Laden will succeed in detonating at least one of them in a major American city, resulting in 1 million to 3 million deaths. Should the president consider taking pre-emptive military action? And let's assume that the president is named John Kerry. Returning from the hypothetical to the current reality, Mr. Kerry and the Democrats have severely chastised President Bush for advocating and practicing pre-emptive war. In a ...
...Mr. Kerry would have held American security hostage to fanatically anti-American French and Ge...
Europeans, like American critics of the Bush Doctrine, worry about the unfortunate juxtaposition of the unachievable goal of completely ending tyranny throughout the world, the confusion between preemptive war and preventive war, the use of 9/11 as a pretext for unilateralism, and the document's preface declaring, "This is a wartime national security strategy . . . ." When moderate intellectuals can argue that Pope Benedict XVI's controversial speech at Regensburg University in which he criticized the Prophet Muhammad was a Western "fatwa" granting President Bush religious justification for wars against Islam, then the West has a crisis of public diplomacy and credibility that only reinforces the appeal of radical Islam.31 Regaining the confidence of moderate Muslims is vital.
The legal and moral ("just war") permissibility of preventive military attacks has been one of the most urgent questions in international law since the onset of the War on Terror. Debates in this area commonly rest upon an assumption that the relevant strategic choice is between preventive war and deterrence, and that even if preventive war may be controversial, deterrence at least is legally straightforward and relatively unproblematic. This Article challenges that conventional assumption. I argue that deterrence and preventive war have more in common than is typically noticed-specifically, a shared future orientation and reliance on retrospectively disproportionate violence-and that in virtue of these common features, much of what we say about the permissibility of one of these strate...
... This declaration, formalized in the 2002 National Security Strategy document, bore practical fruit i...
In a predictable replay of the reaction that greeting President Bush's 2002 National Security Strategy (NSS), the reaction to the 2006 update of the document has focused almost entirely on the doctrine of preemption. After all the noise made four years ago and after the difficulties encountered by United States in Iraq, perhaps critics had hoped that pre-emption would quietly go away. Yet here it is again, pointing at the next potential target, Iran. Pure exasperation with the National Security Council's bullheadedness is in the air. And not only that, but the doctrine of democracy-building has not gone out the window due to difficult days and sometimes disappointing results. In fact, in the 2006 version of the NSS, it has become the mainstay of the entire document, rather than a subsec...
WASHINGTON - Outlining new military priorities after a costly decade of war, President Barack Obama called for shrinking the Army and Marines and refocusing Pentagon spending to counter dangers from China and Iran. Declaring that the "tide of war is receding," Obama outlined the shift in strategy in an appearance Thursday at the Pentagon, underscoring the White House desire to pivot away from the unpopular and costly conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan in an election year.
... commanders, Obama vowed to "ensure our security with smaller conventional ground forces," adding t... than random cuts that could undermine national defense. "They can't get away with their usual sto...The eight-page document made public Thursday does not specify which weapon...
... down military spending as part of its strategy to close the government's huge budget deficit is s... what's happening with many of America's security partners, but Britain's maneuver was especially pa... Obama administration issued its first National Security Strategy document last May. The United St...
One of the central foreign-policy issues of the presidential campaign is sure to be the issue of pre-emption. Specifically, under what circumstances it is appropriate for the United States to use force against a foe that has yet to attack this country directly. The contrast between John Kerry and President Bush on this question could hardly be more stark. Mr. Bush's position is clear. On Sept. 20, 2002, the president issued the National Security Strategy of the United States of America (NSS), a document that broadened the acceptable uses of pre- emption to stop a future military threat to this country.
Administration will remove 'loaded' terms from national security document WASHINGTON, April 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today welcomed an announcement that the Obama administration will remove 'loaded' terms linking Islam to extremism from an important national security document.
... radicalism" from the National Security Strategy, a document that was created by the previous admin...
The space strategy, which seeks to address a "strategic environment" that is "increasingly congested, contested, and competitive," details five interrelated approaches: responsibility, improved U.S. space capabilities, international cooperation, prevention and deterrence, and preparation to defeat attacks and operate in a "degraded environment." The State Department official indicated that attending such an experts meeting would be an appropriate step for the United States should it decide to pursue the code formally. , Although the code would be nonbinding, a group of 37 Republican senators sent a letter Feb. 2 to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton requesting that the administration "immediately consult" with key Senate committees and interested senators.
... of Defense Robert Gates and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper released an unclassifieed summary of the "National Security Space Strategy." The document outlines how the def...
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