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PNAC

The PNAC document states that:

1. The strategy of American global leadership is "desirable" and even "necessary"

2. To maintain American military preeminence ... is consistent with the requirements of a strategy of American global leadership

3. "If defense spending remains at current levels, U.S. forces will soon be too old or too small."

4. This said maintenance of preeminence will require "sharp" and "dramatic" increases in military budgets. Indeed, and I quote "Fulfilling these requirements is essential if America is to retain its militarily dominant status for the coming decades"

5. However, despite the need for "immedate" action .... "the process of transformation, even *if* it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor"

Taking these statements together, you can see that in order to maintain American military preeminence, and in order to have the kind of rapid dramatic transformation in the military, a new Pearl Harbor was required - otherwise the process would be a "long one" ... ( exposing America to a prolonged of "transitional risk" ). Indeed the political climate at the time was one of dwindling military budgets.

I think that this report was quite accurate and that the American military would not, now, be considered to be "preeminent" if it hadn't been for the sustained budget increases due to to 9/11 and the subsequent wars in the Middle East.

(Far from needing to engineer something, all a person would need to do is tie up John P. O'Neill's department - a key brick in the dam holding back al-Qaeda, with a trumped-up investigation into some leaked documents, and suspend lots of travel and security clearances. Oh wait... that's what happened.) 69.134.54.59 (talk) 05:39, 24 August 2009 (UTC)