ABSTRACT
The line of thinking explored in the 1992 DPG influenced the second Bush administration even more than the first. Richard Cheney, who advocated the DPG as Secretary of Defense, had become vice-president. Other senior members of Bush Jr’s administration had expressed similar ideas about foreign policy by signing the Project for the New American Century’s (PNAC’s) 1997 Statement of Principles. Noteworthy signatories included Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, Special Assistant to the President Elliott Abrams, Chair of the Defense Policy Board Richard Perle and President Bush’s brother Jeb.1
