Bush Doctrine
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The Bush Doctrine refers to a set of interrelated foreign policy principles of the 43rd president of the United States, George W. Bush. These principles include unilateralism, the option of preemptive
President Bush making remarks in 2006 during a press conference in the Rose Garden about Iran's nuclear ambitions and discussing North Korea's nuclear test
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President George W. Bush address to the nation and joint session of Congress Sept. 20
Wolfowitz Doctrine
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The term "Wolfowitz Doctrine" is an informal label used for an unofficial version of the U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Planning Guidance for the 1994–1999 fiscal years, dated February 18, 1992.
Bush Doctrine
…include unilateralism, the option of preemptive war, and the promotion of regime change. Some elements of these principles had antecedents in the 1992 Defense Planning Guidance. Charles Krauthammer first used the phrase in June 2001, to describe the Bush administration's "unilaterally withdrawing from the ABM treaty and rejecting…
Paul D. Wolfowitz (Under Secretary of Defense for Policy), General Colin Powell (Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff), and General Norman Schwarzkopf (Commander in Chief, U.S. Central Command) listening to Secretary of Defense Richard B. “Dick” Cheney during a press conference on the Gulf War, February 1991.
March 1, 2001: Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld (left) introduced Wolfowitz to reporters during a Pentagon news briefing.