Washington Rules_ America's Path to Permanent War - Andrew J. Bacevich [110]
37. In a speech justifying the bombing of Serbia, Clinton asked, “What if someone had listened to Winston Churchill and stood up to Adolf Hitler earlier? How many people’s lives might have been saved? And how many American lives might have been saved?” Quoted in Timothy Garton Ash, “The New Adolf Hitler?” Time, April 5, 1999.
38. Henry A. Kissinger, “Lessons of Vietnam,” ca. May 12, 1975, http://www.ford.utexas.edu/library/exhibits/vietnam/750512b.htm. This draft memorandum to the president was apparently never sent.
39. Elaine Sciolino, “Madeleine Albright’s Audition,” New York Times Magazine, September 22, 1996, p. SM67.
40. “Interview on NBC-TV ‘The Today Show’ with Matt Lauer,” February 19, 1998, http://secretary.state.gov/www/statements/1998/980219a.html.
41. Colin Powell, My American Journey (New York, 2005), p. 576.
42. Interview on 60 Minutes, May 11, 1996.
43. Sciolino, “Madeleine Albright’s Audition.”
44. “Farewell Remarks by Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright,” January 19, 2001, http://usinfo.org/wf-archive/2001/010119/epf503.htm.
4. RECONSTITUTING THE TRINITY
1. David Vine, Island of Shame: The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia (Princeton, New Jersey, 2009).
2. Secretary Cohen’s Remarks at the Foreign Policy Association Medal for Leaders, April 2, 1998, http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/transcript.aspx?transcriptid=791.
3. James R. Blaker, Transforming Military Force: The Legacy of Arthur Cebrowski and Network Centric Warfare (Washington, D.C., 2007), pp. 82, 74, 84.
4. Operation Northern Watch, http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/northern_watch.htm, accessed September 12, 2009; Operation Southern Watch, http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/southern_watch.htm.
5. Department of Defense, Conduct of the Persian Gulf War: Final Report to Congress, April 1992, p. 19, http://www.ndu.edu/library/epubs/cpgw.pdf.
6. Dan Balz and Rick Atkinson, “Powell Vows to Isolate Iraqi Army and Then ‘Kill It,’ ” Washington Post, January 24, 1991, p. A1.
7. Department of Defense, Conduct of the Persian Gulf War, pp. 22, 24, 25.
8. Department of Defense, Conduct of the Persian Gulf War, p. 38.
9. There is a vast literature on the Revolution in Military Affairs, much of it predating 9/11 and most of it now largely discredited. To sample that literature, see the compendium assembled by the Project on Defense Alternatives, available at http://www.comw.org/rma/. For an exceptionally instructive primer, see Joint Vision 2010, a document published by the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1996 and available at http://www.dtic.mil/jv2010/jv2010.pdf.
10. Norman Podhoretz, World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism (Garden City, New York, 2007).
11. “Building a Military for the 21st Century,” http://avalon.law.yale.edu/sept11/testimony_002.asp. This document provides the text of written testimony that Wolfowitz presented to the House and Senate Armed Services Committee on October 3 and 4, 2001.
12. Remarks at the Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina, December 11, 2001, http://externalaffairs.citadel.edu/presbush01.
13. “Text of Bush Speech,” May 1, 2003, http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/05/01/iraq/main551946.shtml.
14. “Cheney Declares Iraqi Freedom ‘Most Extraordinary Military Campaign,’ ” May 1, 2003, http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=29033.
15. “Prepared Statement for the Defense Transformation Act of the 21st Century,” May 6, 2003, http://www.defenselink.mil/speeches/speech.aspx?speechid=388.
16. “Operation Enduring Freedom/Iraqi Freedom Intelligence Lessons Learned,” April 13, 2004, http://www.oss.net/ . . . /Mazzafro%20on%20OSINT%20and%20All%20Source.PPT.
17. Williamson Murray and Robert H. Scales, The Iraq War: A Military History (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2003), p. 145.
18. “Secretary Rumsfeld Interview with Meet the Press,” April 13, 2003, http://www.defense.gov/Transcripts/Transcript.aspx?TranscriptID=2383.
19. Donald Rumsfeld,