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Global Research – March 8, 2023

Why America Needs War, The Project for The New American Century (PNAC)

By Dr. Jacques R. Pauwels and Prof Michel Chossudovsky

Introductory Note on America’s “Long War”: The Project for The New American Century (PNAC)

This incisive and carefully documented article by renowned historian and political scientist Dr. Jacques Pauwels was published by Global Research almost 20 years ago on April 30, 2003 in the immediate wake of the war on Iraq. Dr. Jacques Pauwels is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG).

The article largely pertains to the presidency of George W. Bush.

Flash Forward to 2023: A Timely Question

Why Does the Biden administration need war, including a $1.3 trillion nuclear weapons program?

War against Russia and China is currently on the drawing board of the Pentagon.

The US has conducted numerous wars since the end of what is euphemistically called the post war era:

Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen…

It’s what the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) describes as “A Long War”, a sequence of wars: “fight and decisively win multiple, simultaneous major theater wars”

The PNAC was published at the height of the presidential election campaign in September 2000, barely 2 months prior to the November elections.

The PNAC “Long War” proposal entitled Rebuilding America’s Defenses is a Blue Print for the sequence of theater wars initiated by US-NATO in the course of last 21 years starting on October 7, 2001 with the bombing and invasion of Afghanistan, extending into a series of “multiple wars”.

What is described in the PNAC document is the following, which reflects on what is unfolding today before our very eyes in Ukraine. It largely consists of four core missions:

ESTABLISH FOUR CORE MISSIONS for U.S. military forces:

defend the American homeland;

fight and decisively win multiple, simultaneous major theater wars;

perform the “constabulary” duties associated with shaping the security environment in critical regions;

transform U.S. forces to exploit the “revolution in military affairs;”

Chapter II of the PNAC Document outlines these four core missions as follows:

HOMELAND DEFENSE. America must defend its homeland. During the Cold War, nuclear deterrence was the key element in homeland defense; it remains essential. But the new century has brought with it new challenges. While reconfiguring its nuclear force, the United States also must counteract the effects of the proliferation of ballistic missiles and weapons of mass destruction that may soon allow lesser states to deter U.S. military action by threatening U.S. allies and the American homeland itself. Of all the new and current missions for U.S. armed forces, this must have priority.

LARGE WARS. Second, the United States must retain sufficient forces able to rapidly deploy and win multiple simultaneous large-scale wars and also to be able to respond to unanticipated contingencies in regions where it does not maintain forward-based forces. This resembles the “two-war” standard that has been the basis of U.S. force planning over the past decade. Yet this standard needs to be updated to account for new realities and potential new conflicts.

CONSTABULARY DUTIES. Third, the Pentagon must retain forces to preserve the current peace in ways that fall short of conduction major theater campaigns. A decade’s experience and the policies of two administrations have shown that such forces must be expanded to meet the needs of the new, long-term NATO mission in the Balkans, the continuing no-fly-zone and other missions in Southwest Asia, and other presence missions in vital regions of East Asia. These duties are today’s most frequent missions, requiring forces configured for combat but capable of long-term, independent constabulary operations.

TRANSFORM U.S. ARMED FORCES. Finally, the Pentagon must begin now to exploit the socalled “revolution in military affairs,” sparked by the introduction of advanced technologies into military systems; this must be regarded as a separate and critical mission worthy of a share of force structure and defense budgets.

(emphasis added)

“To carry out these core missions, we need to provide sufficient force and budgetary allocations. In particular, the United States must:

“MAINTAIN NUCLEAR STRATEGIC SUPERIORITY, …

“EXPLOIT THE “REVOLUTION IN MILITARY AFFAIRS”…

“INCREASE DEFENSE SPENDING …

The military agenda of the Biden Administration is consistent with the PNAC guidelines: an operation which consists in the deliberate destruction of sovereign countries resulting in millions of deaths.

Does PNAC Project Co-Chairman Donald Kagan (husband of Victoria Nuland) play a role in the formulation of U.S. foreign policy?

And why do Americans support this military agenda?

Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, June 5, 2022, March 8, 2023

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