The military-industrial think tank complex: corporate think tanks and the doctrine of aggressive militarism. (The Business of War).

From: Multinational Monitor | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: Ciarrocca, Michelle; Hartung, William | Copyright information

THE AGGRESSIVE FIRST-STRIKE MILITARY STRATEGY now animating U.S. policy toward Iraq was developed during the 1990s by a network of corporate-backed conservative think tanks.

Each major element of the Bush administration's national security strategy -- from the doctrines of preemptive strikes and "regime change" in Iraq, to its aggressive nuclear posture and commitment to deploying a Star Wars-style missile defense system -- was developed and refined before the Bush admin...

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