The rise and fall of the "rogue doctrine": The pentagon's quest for a post-Cold War military strategy

Middle East Report

Volumn 28, Issue 208, 1998, Pages 12-47

  Klare, Michael ^a  

^a HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE   (United States)

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FOREIGN POLICY; GEOPOLITICS; INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; NATIONAL SECURITY; POST-COLD WAR;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031731680     PISSN: 08992851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3013402     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. I first analyzed this strategy in Rogue States and Nuclear Outlaws (New York: Hill and Wang, 1995).
2. For a thorough account of these developments, see Lorna S. Jaffe, The Development of the Base Force (Washington, DC: Joint History Office, Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, July 1993).
3. Lorna S. Jaffe, The Development of the Base Force ( Ibid., p. 19.
4. Carl E. Vuono, "Versatile, Deployable, and Lethal: The Strategic Army in the 1990s and Beyond," Sea Power (April 1990), pp. 59-61.
5. Carl E. Vuono, Sea Power ( Ibid., pp. 33-36.
6. From the text of Bush's address to the US Department of Defense, Annual Report for Fiscal Year 1992 (Washington, DC: US Department of Defense, January 1991), pp. 131-32.
7. I elaborate on this point in Rogue States, pp. 3-34.
8. Statement before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Washington, DC, March 19, 1991 (Xerox copy), p. 7.
9. The only major difference between the two is that Aspin spoke of fighting two MRCs "nearly simultaneously" instead of completely simultaneously, in order to justify an additional reduction in US strength from 12 Army divisions in the Powell plan to ten in the BUR, and from 15 active Air Force tactical fighter wings to 13. For background and discussion, see Rogue States, pp. 97-119.
10. Les Aspin, Bottom-Up Review: Force Structure Excerpts (Washington, DC: US Department of Defense, September 1, 1993), pp.1, 5.
11. Anthony Lake, "Confronting Backlash States," Foreign Affairs 73/2 (March/April 1994), pp. 45-46.
12. Kim Murphy, "Rogue Nation' Poses Nuclear Threat, Perry Says," Los Angeles Times, January 9, 1995.
13. Remarks by William Perry at Georgetown University, Washington, DC, April 18, 1996 (transcript provided by Federal News Service).
14. For discussion, see Bradley Graham, "Pentagon's Plan for Future Draws Heavily From Cold War Past," Washington Post, May 11, 1997;
15. "QDR: Marginal Changes," Armed Forces Journal, June 1997, pp. 56-59.
16. See Steven Lee Myers, "US Will Not Ask to Use Saudi Bases for a Raid on Iraq," The New York Times, February 9, 1998;
17. Myers, "Cohen Finds Gulf Nations Hostile to Military Action," The New York Times, February 11, 1998.
18. Aspin, Bottom-Up Review, p. 5.
19. Lake, "Confronting Backlash States," p. 46.
20. See Steven Erlanger, "Top Clinton Aids Find Doubt on Iraq at Campus in Ohio," The New York Times, February 19, 1998.
21. Remarks at Asia Society Dinner, New York City, June 17, 1998, as published by the US Department of State (electronic communication accessed at http://secretary.state.gov/www/ statements/1998/98061717a.html, on June 21, 1998).
22. Institute for National Security Studies, National Defense University (NDU), 1997 Strategic Assessment (Washington, DC: NDU Press, 1997), p. 233.