RAD, the new PNAC

[Gregorian]

Rebuilding America's Defenses

It's not "new", as this came out in 2003.

When we hear this oath- I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States, against all enemies, foreign and domestic. At least I, don't think much about the term "domestic". But at this time in our history, I think we need to start paying more attention to the domestic threat which is growing within our own country. And it's not gay marriage or pot smokers.

Here are the main goals that the RAD-

HOMELAND DEFENSE. America must defend its homeland. During the Cold War,
nuclear deterrence was the key element in homeland defense; it remains essential. But the
new century has brought with it new challenges. While reconfiguring its nuclear force, the
United States also must counteract the effects of the proliferation of ballistic missiles and
weapons of mass destruction that may soon allow lesser states to deter U.S. military action
by threatening U.S. allies and the American homeland itself. Of all the new and current
missions for U.S. armed forces, this must have priority.

LARGE WARS. Second, the United States must retain sufficient forces able to rapidly
deploy and win multiple simultaneous large-scale wars and also to be able to respond to
unanticipated contingencies in regions where it does not maintain forward-based forces.
This resembles the “two-war” standard that has been the basis of U.S. force planning over
the past decade. Yet this standard needs to be updated to account for new realities and
potential new conflicts.

CONSTABULARY DUTIES. Third, the Pentagon must retain forces to preserve the
current peace in ways that fall short of conduction major theater campaigns. A decade’s
experience and the policies of two administrations have shown that such forces must be
expanded to meet the needs of the new, long-term NATO mission in the Balkans, the
continuing no-fly-zone and other missions in Southwest Asia, and other presence missions in
vital regions of East Asia. These duties are today’s most frequent missions, requiring forces
configured for combat but capable of long-term, independent constabulary operations.

TRANSFORM U.S. ARMED FORCES. Finally, the Pentagon must begin now to exploit the so-called
“revolution in military affairs,” sparked by the introduction of advanced technologies
into military systems; this must be regarded as a separate and critical mission worthy of a
share of force structure and defense budgets.



This is the PNAC defibrillated; On steroids. That's all I'll say, as I have only just started to digest this. I'm posting links from a couple of sites. The Antiwar site has a somewhat abbreviated description of RAD. And the informationclearinghouse has a link to the actual RAD document.

http://www.antiwar.com/orig/stockbauer1.html

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3249.htm

[ComerPerro]

1. RAD was also the title of the PNAC article with the infamous "we need another Pearl Harbor" quote

[hootinholler]

2. Read Your links...

This is a discussion of the PNAC's paper.

-Hoot

[Gregorian]

5. I posted this before reading it all.

I saw a talk where they were treating RAD as if it were a completely new document.

Oh well, post haste. I won't be posting before reading it all, again. :(

[bananas]

3. No, RAD was published in 2000

Scroll down on the PNAC website and you'll see a link to the pdf:

http://www.newamericancentury.org/publicationsreports.htm

<snip list of other publications>

Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources For a New Century
A Report of the Project for the New American Century
September 2000

<snip>

[Warpy]

4. "LARGE WARS???"

Cripes, these people are stupid. No matter how many serfs they throw against the rest of the world to be slaughtered, this country no longer has what it takes to fight a large war.

Industry.

The same greedy and witless SOBs who wrote this stuff have offshored so much of our manufacturing capability we can no longer support any sort of large conflict. Their hubris is in thinking all supply lanes will be wide open for the duration. They have no clue that the enemy will likely be all those countries that now possess what used to be domestic industry.

Somebody needs to expose these fools for what they are.

[chaska]

6. What's with these paranoid fux? Stupid, fearful creatures whose whole little world would...

fit under a thimble. They see nothing but enemies. And they're everywhere! It's a gd infestation, I tell ya.

[Exiled in America]

7. I thnk you're confused

"Rebuilding Americas Defenses" is not a new organization, rather it is one of several white papers from the PNAC.

I think that's what you're post was saying - that the PNAC has faded and this org has emerged in its place. It's not an org, its a summary of the PNAC's core ideals and the title of their white paper.

[Bucky]

8. Maybe we could outsource the military to India

That seems to be working pretty good for the private sector

[Trajan]

9. This IS the PNAC ...

But I must admit, RAD is rad .... (The acronym, I mean)