who began his career in government, a senior staff member to Senator Henry “Scoop” Jackson
on the Senate Armed Services Committee in the 1970’s. Later he was heavily involved with the Reagan administration
and served as the assistant Secretary of Defense
and also worked on the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee
from 1987 to 2004. He was Chairman of the Board in 2001 under the Bush Administration
but eventually resigned in 2003 due to conflict of interests.
He is a member of several think-tanks, such as the Hudson Institute
, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy
(WINEP) Board of Advisors, the Center for Security Policy
(CSP), and (as a resident fellow) the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
, as well as the neoconservative
Project for the New American Century
(PNAC) and the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs
(JINSA).
Sometimes the things we have to do are objectionable in the eyes of others.
I’ve never thought much of Joe Nye’s writings on soft power.
Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.
I think there is a potential civic culture in Arab countries that can lead to democratic institutions and I think Iraq is probably the best place to put that proposition to the test
The programme of the British Labour Party under Neil Kinnock|Neil Kinnock is so wildly irresponsible, so separate and apart from the historic NATO strategy, that I think a Labour government that stood by its present policies—and I rather doubt that they would—would, if it didn't destroy the Alliance, at least diminish its effective ability to do the task for which it was created.