The Project for The New American CenturyGHUM 1180, Pop Culture: Politics of Media

LiteracyProfessor Reeves Medaglia-Miller, Ph.D.

The Project for the New American Century (PNAC) was an American think tank based in Washington, D.C.. It was co-founded as a non-profit educational organization by neoconservatives William Kristol and Robert Kagan. The PNAC's stated goal was "to promote American global leadership.

• Fundamental to the PNAC were the view that "American leadership is both good for America and good for the world" and support for "a Reaganite policy of military strength and moral clarity." 

• The PNAC exerted influence on high-level U.S. government officials in the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush and affected the Bush Administration's development of military and foreign policies, especially involving national security and the Iraq War.

• we need to increase defense spending significantly if we are to carry out our global responsibilities today and modernize our armed forces for the future;

• we need to strengthen our ties to democratic allies and to challenge regimes hostile to our interests and values;

• we need to promote the cause of political and economic freedom abroad;

• we need to accept responsibility for America's unique role in preserving and extending an international order friendly to our security, our prosperity, and our principles.

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The Office of Special Plans

• In September 2002, The Project for the New American Century was afforded an office in the White House, called the Office of Special Plans.

• Officially, it lasted only until June 2003. In fact, it lasted, in various incarnations (such as the Iranian Directorate), until the end of the Bush administration.

• The Office of Special Plans was accused of numerous instances of manipulation of intelligence and other unlawful activities.

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Paul Wolfowitz

• Architect of Wolfowitz Doctrine

• US Deputy Secretary of Defense, 2001-2005

• President of the World Bank, 2005-2007

• Steering committee member, Bilderberg Group

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Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby

• Assistant to the President, 2001-2005

• October 2005, indicted by a federal grand jury in connection with the investigation of the leak of the covert identity of Central Intelligence Agency officer Valerie Plame Wilson.

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Dick Cheney

• 46th Vice President, 2001-2009

• Secretary of Defense, 1989-1993 (Gulf War)

• Former CEO of Halliburton, 1995-2000

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Donald Rumsfeld

• Secretary of Defense, 1975-1977, 2001-2006 (Afghan War, Iraq War)

• President of Searle Pharmaceutical, 1977-1985

• CEO, General Instrument, 1990-1993

• Chairman, Gilead Sciences, 1997-2001

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Richard Perle

• Assistant Secretary of Defense, 1981-1989

• Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee, 1987-2004

• Chairman of Defense Policy Board, 2001-2003

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Dan Quayle• 44th Vice

President, 1989-1993

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Jeb Bush• 43rd Governor of

Florida, 1999-2006

• the second son of former President George H. W. Bush and former First Lady Barbara Bush; the younger brother of former President George W. Bush

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Links• The Project for the New American Century

(website)• Statement of Principles (website)• Rebuilding America’s Defenses (website)• The Project for the New American Century

(Wiki)• Critique (Information Clearing House)• The New American Century (film)