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Bush to issue 'strike first' strategy
SunSpot ^ | 7/1/02 | Mark Matthews

Posted on 07/01/2002 6:37:44 AM PDT by areafiftyone

Edited on 09/03/2002 4:50:43 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

WASHINGTON - Sometime this fall, President Bush will issue what some are calling the biggest change in U.S. strategic policy since the dawn of the Cold War in the late 1940s.

It's the doctrine of "strike first," or "pre-emption," and it has the potential to reshape military thinking, dispatch U.S. forces into the world's dark corners without warning, shake up relations with allies and break new ground in international law.


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1 posted on 07/01/2002 6:37:44 AM PDT by areafiftyone
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the biggest change in U.S. strategic policy since...

Klintoon's policy of using the military as a social laboratory and soldiers as global soup kitchen workers.

2 posted on 07/01/2002 6:41:05 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: *Bush Doctrine Unfold
Bump
3 posted on 07/01/2002 7:26:24 AM PDT by Free the USA
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