The Wolfowitz Doctrine
In 1992, the Cold War was over. But the Defense Department was already planning for the next one.
1. In the atmosphere of punch-drunk Cold War triumphalism that followed the Soviet Union’s collapse, a small group of neoconservatives in Dick Cheney’s Defense Department started planning for a unipolar world. The document they drafted in the waning days of the George H. W. Bush administration, the 1992 Defense Planning Guidance (DPG), was a road map […]