Reply #3: A “Hawk” Is Born [View All]

[Jcrowley]

A “Hawk” Is Born

After all these years in the Pentagon and two particularly successful military operations lived through, Dick Cheney’s ideology in terms of international politics has grown considerably strong. Unquestionably, his proximity to Paul Wolfowitz also influenced the development of a true neo-conservative doctrine in this field.

The United States, and particularly the U.S. army, then faced a total reconsideration caused by the slow but sure collapse of the former Soviet block. In this setting, Cheney entirely adhered to the Wolfowitz’s doctrine, prone to discourage the emerging powers that wanted to contest the United States as far as keeping a strong military power was concerned.

This doctrine was developed on the 1992 Defense Planning Guidance, directed by Cheney, coordinated by Wolfowitz and drawn up by Zalmay Khalilzad <6>. When certain passages «were filtrated» to the press and fed a controversy, Cheney defended the text unlike Wolfowitz, who, first of all, tried to protect himself. The Defense Secretary had never been afraid of openly expressing his opinions. A few weeks later, when the definitive version of the report was published, after its new partial drafting by Scooter Libby, it was the name of Richard Cheney the one to appear on the cover.



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