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  Bush Review Of Pentagon Sets Stage for a Shake-Up - 10/2/01
Marshall is a figure of some controversy in defense circles for his outspoken criticism of some of the traditional pillars of U.S. strategy and procurement policy.
Marshall's orders are to undertake a broad analysis of likely adversaries, the nature of future wars, how many conflicts the United States should be prepared to fight at once and what forces it would need to do so.
Marshall is something of a legend in national security circles, both for his longevity and for his far-reaching network of acolytes across the government, academia and the defense industry.
cndyorks.gn.apc.org /caab/articles/shake-up.htm   (1248 words)

  
 Andrew Marshall (foreign policy strategist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Andrew Marshall is the director of the United States Department of Defense's Office of Net Assessment.
Appointed to the position in 1973 by United States President Richard Nixon, Marshall has been re-appointed by every president that followed.
This biographical article related to the United States military is a stub.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Andrew_Marshall_(foreign_policy_strategist)   (95 words)

  
 USCFL - Who's Who in the Bush Administration - Other Officials -
Bolton, a senior vice president for pubic policy research with the American Enterprise Institute, was spotted in the thick of the battle for the White House during the contested presidential election.
In a clear break with Washington's long-standing "one-China" policy, Bolton advocates that Taiwan be recognized as an independent state and be given a seat in the United Nations.
Marshall has been a main proponent of the "Revolution in Military Affairs" (RMA), a term he borrowed from a Soviet General Staff member and adapted to describe the need to concentrate on information warfare and precision-guided munitions.
www.freelebanon.org /articles/a309.htm   (6109 words)

  
 JINSA Online -- Defense Funds on Hold as Military Goes Under Review
Marshall was the keynote speaker at JINSA's first Strategy Conference held in conjunction with the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College, held in the spring of 1998.
Although he is little known to the public, Marshall is a controversial figure in defense circles for his outspoken criticism of some of the traditional pillars of U.S. strategy and procurement policy.
All but unknown outside national security circles, the publicity-shy Marshall is something of a legend within that world, both for his longevity and for his far-reaching network of acolytes across the government, academia and the defense industry.
www.jinsa.org /articles/view.html?documentid=1105   (1590 words)

  
 Neocons: The men behind the curtain | thebulletin.org
To understand what appears to many as a revolutionary shift in U.S. foreign policy, it is useful to realize that a large part of their thinking derives from concerns with threats from weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles.
Bernard Brodie, the pioneer strategist of nuclear war, was among the first to consider the complexities of war-fighting strategy in the nuclear age.
In 1979 the Carter administration was paralyzed on the foreign policy front, under siege from military hawks, and reeling from three foreign policy disasters--a revolution sweeping Iran, another in Nicaragua, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
www.thebulletin.org /article.php?art_ofn=nd03husain   (6560 words)

  
 Foreign Policy In Focus | The Republican Rule | Profiles
Despite his Foreign Service credentials, he has been heralded as a relatively new face in the Middle East peace process, one who doesn't carry as much political baggage as some of the older advisors who tried--and failed--to broker deals.
And during most of that time he has been in the business of criticizing military policy as short-sightedly focused on "fighting the last war." At 79, this is Marshall's last shot at making his futuristic visions into national policy.
Zoellick, a seasoned foreign policy overachiever, emerged as George Bush's U.S. Trade Representative at a January 11 press conference in Washington.
www.fpif.org /republicanrule/officials_body.html#negroponte   (8442 words)

  
 Hicks & Associates: Principal Staff: Job C. Henning   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
He is a lawyer and a strategist, with regional specialization in Eurasia.
Henning also supports a number of OSD Special Operations/Low Intensity Conflict policy initiatives, including the Global Peace Operations Initiative and a variety of Train and Equip programs, designed to refine the strategic framework for stability operations and increase the capacity of the United States to conduct these types of military activities.
Marshall includes research on the strategic importance of regional water scarcity, new demographic trends, and new military contingencies that may confront the United States in Asia over the next several decades.
www.hicksandassociates.com /staff/job_henning.html   (1058 words)

  
 NucNews - April 2, 2001
Marshall's opposition to the F-22 is often touted as an example of his "iconoclastic" thinking.
In fact, some foreign policy analysts say it is premature to look for rifts as the administration settles in and some key posts are unfilled.
Kuchma's foreign minister, Anatoliy Zlenko, was in town last week, and his message was blunt: Ukraine's regime, he volunteered, was inclined to believe that a one-superpower world led by the United States "has a lot of advantages" and was even sympathetic to the Bush administration's missile defense plans.
nucnews.net /nucnews/2001nn/0104nn/010402nn.htm   (19957 words)

  
 American Politics Journal -- Richard Perle: Dead Man Walking
Perle said, in an affidavit dated March 7, that his position as chairman of the Defense Policy Board gives him a "unique perspective" on and "intimate knowledge" of the national defense and security issues that will be raised by the US Committee on Foreign Investment, which has the power to block the deal.
Even then Perle was meddling in places he did not belong and most leading foreign policy analysts were livid about what they saw as Republican party-politics intrusiveness in the delicate negotiations under way at the presidential retreat at Camp David, Maryland, aimed at reaching a final settlement in the 52-year Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Ledeen is also leading the charge for regime change in Iran, while Andrew Marshall and Harold Rhode in the Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment plot to mess with both Iran and Saudi Arabia.
www.americanpolitics.com /20030327Koop3.html   (986 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Andrew Marshall has been based in Iraq for over two years and has run the Reuters bureau in Baghdad since August 2003, heading a team of around 50 journalists in Baghdad and in key cities across Iraq.
Marshall has reported from 20 countries, covering stories including the downfall of Indonesia's President Suharto amid widespread rioting in 1998, East Timor's violent transition to independence in 1999, the struggle for democracy in Burma and the overthrow of the Taliban in Afghanistan.
She is a regular commentator on US foreign policy on the American National Public Radio and Public Broadcasting System television.
www.arabthought.org /ATF/English/FourthACSpeakersEnPage.html   (8449 words)

  
 Terra Firm no.24: The Zionists’ Rise to World Domination.
He currently sits as chairman of the powerful Defense Policy Board (he resigned from this position after a conflict of interest was unearthed) and advises (and many believe controls) the Bush defense team.
David Kirp, a professor at UC Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy who focuses on ethics, said the Bush administration is sending a profound message to Iraqis by placing a man with Garner's background in charge of reconstruction and humanitarian aid.
Apart from the evidence of the policy distortions that arise from zealotry, one need only ask whether it can be mere coincidence that those in the Bush administration who most strongly promote "regime change" in Iraq are also those who most strongly support the policies of the Israeli right wing.
www.geocities.com /carbonomics/MCtfirm/10tf24/10tf24i.html   (10408 words)

  
 PARAMETERS, US Army War College Quarterly - Winter 2005-06
Marshall’s research not only found favor among military intellectuals, Bacevich points out, but the Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) also fit the mood of the 1980s and 90s, when the old international order was changing, and columnist Thomas Friedman of The New York Times would write, “The emerging global order needs an enforcer.
Andrew Bacevich’s efforts so far have yielded a thorough analysis and a credible thesis, but antidotes are still wanting.
Within the personnel policies characteristic, military leaders appreciate the political role in appointing military officers to positions of senior leadership, but believe these appointments must be based on competency, and that these military leaders should then have the authority to control their internal personnel policies.
www.carlisle.army.mil /usawc/parameters/05winter/win-rev.htm   (12118 words)

  
 Dynamist.com
DEFENSE POLICY: Washington is abuzz with talk about Pentagon shakeups, now that Donald Rumsfeld has asked big-thinker Andrew Marshall to review strategy.
Marshall isn't one to make defense recommendations based on maximizing the distribution of pork or muddling along with a variation of the status quo.
According to his former teaching assistant Andrew Sullivan, Mansfield traces the origins of Harvard's grade inflation to the admission of underqualified fls in the 1960s.
www.dynamist.com /weblog/archives/2001/feb05.html   (2894 words)

  
 Neocons: The men behind the curtain : Utah IMC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Reading the calls to war with Iraq, one was reminded of Cato the Elder, who spent his retirement urging the Roman generals to remove the thorn of Carthage permanently from Rome's side so it could never again defy Roman might.
In 1979 the Carter administration was paralyzed on the foreign policy front, under siege from military hawks, and reeling from three foreign policy disasters—a revolution sweeping Iran, another in Nicaragua, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
Following the Soviet collapse, Marshall had a brief period when he argued that the Soviet Union was now at its most dangerous moment—that it might lash out in one last effort to hold its empire together.
utah.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=6871   (6618 words)

  
 Lutz00   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Thousands of civilians, acting as civilians, took up arms in order to defend their city against a foreign army that was seeking to remove Aidid and his lieutenants from the scene, but that was wounding and killing innocent Somali civilians in the process.
A former top foreign policy adviser to the president said that Clinton has learned over the years to separate his personal feelings from his leadership responsibilities.
The American policy was presented to Nigerian officials as a supplement to an existing “national health policy.” It simply required that “family planning” be included in the health program.
www.usafa.af.mil /jscope/JSCOPE00/Lutz00.html   (18930 words)

  
 NTI: Global Security Newswire
Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi said yesterday at the U.N. General Assembly that the "Afghan people should decide on their country's future according to the democratic principle of 'one man, one vote'" (Islamic Republic News Agency, Nov. 14).
Pakistani Foreign Minister Abdus Sattar and several others were prevented from entering U.N. headquarters for the 6+2 meeting when the building was locked down following the crash of an American Airlines plane in the New York borough of Queens.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhu Bangzao said the United Nations should play an important role in a new Afghan government, which should be "widely based, represent the interests of the various groups and live in peace and harmony with other countries, especially its neighbors" (AP/South China Morning Post, Nov. 13).
www.nti.org /d_newswire/issues/thisweek/2001_11_15_terr.html   (7072 words)

  
 www.GovExec.com - The Decision Makers: Defense Department (8/26/05)
Rodman considers himself a generalist in foreign affairs, a policy realm where many practitioners define themselves in terms of a specific regional expertise.
Jokingly called "Yoda" by admirers, the 83-year-old Marshall is a lifelong advocate of advanced military technology, much of which has moved from science fiction to battlefield reality in his lifetime.
The Bush administration may be the apogee of Marshall's influence, as Rumsfeld strives to replace Industrial Age tank divisions and aircraft carriers with Information Age networks of nimbler weapons.
govexec.com /dailyfed/0805/082605dm.htm   (6630 words)

  
 MILITARY THEORISTS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The emphasis on officer and other professional education in Germany during the interwar period was enormous, and one can argue that the seeds of that particular RMA were planted and nurtured in the Kriegsakademie.
Gen Hans von Seeckt, chief of the German General Staff and commander of the army between 1919 and 1926, instituted policies that significantly expanded and enhanced the education of the officer corps that later developed the blitzkrieg concept and led the German army in World War II.
Andrew W. Marshall, director of net assessment, Office of the Secretary of Defense, memorandum, 23 August 1993.
www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil /airchronicles/apj/apj96/fall96/kenney.html   (7724 words)

  
 Forum: George W. Bush, Bogus conservative   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
George W. Bush is not a conservative, but a right-wing ideologue who steers by abstractions in both foreign and domestic policy.
As Professor Andrew Bacevich, a military expert and foreign policy strategist at Boston University, put it in 2002, Mr.
So confident were the Bushites of rapid military success in Iraq and the emergence of democracy in that they recklessly sold the war on the basis of Iraq's WMD, even though, for example, expert assessments were available to them that the infamous aluminum rods were not suitable for the centrifuges used in nuclear processing.
www.post-gazette.com /pg/05324/609032.stm   (1532 words)

  
 Political Animal: Comment on Oil Production   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Andrew Marshall, head of the Office of Net Assessment, contends that Asia is where all of the action is, and that China must be contained.
As we finance our deficits by selling bonds to foreigners, more and more dollars are sloshing around the international economy, putting downward pressure on the value of the dollar.
One component of that is clear: because foreigners hold a lot of dollar bills, which pay no interest, we in effect get a free loan of that much money.
www.washingtonmonthly.com /mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=3861   (15482 words)

  
 Nuclear weapons - SourceWatch
There was Albert Wohlstetter, the Columbia-trained mathematician described by Henry Kissinger as a 'brilliant strategist,' and Andrew Marshall, whose network in the defense establishment reads today like a who's who of the Bush administration/cabinet.
There was Alain Enthoven, the leader of the 'Whiz Kids,' a team that advised Robert Strange McNamara on the conduct of the Vietnam War.
"At RAND the formidable strategist Albert Wohlstetter was demonstrating that in a matter of minutes Soviet short-range missiles could take out all U.S. foreign strategic air command bases encircling the Soviet Union.
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Nuclear_weapon   (1164 words)

  
 PARAMETERS, US Army War College Quarterly - Autumn 2001
A policy of accelerated transformation will have to account for any additional risks concerning the ability of the US military to meet near- and mid-term requirements such as warfighting.
And Andrew Krepinevich has accused DOD of adopting the "Wells Fargo" approach to transformation: moving in slow stages.
His former boss, Andrew Marshall, the long-time head of DOD Net Assessment, believes that a useful way to deal with the future is to transform a small part of the armed forces to see if the results work well instead of a full-blown transformation effort.
carlisle-www.army.mil /usawc/Parameters/01autumn/Jablonsk.htm   (7542 words)

  
 The New York Times > Washington News > Election 2004 > Times on the Trail
Andrew Sullivan simply states: "it's over." Instapundit is impressed with Edwards' non-concession speech: "He's good.
12:19 AM ET Josh Marshall and Andrew Sullivan are among Kerry-backing blogs starting to wonder what's gone wrong, and one obvious culprit is the youth vote, the group that P. Diddy tried to motivate in a "Vote or Die" get-out-the-vote campaign.
The Brookings Institution announced a news conference in two days about the "Direction of U.S. Foreign Policy," which is interesting because the man holding it, James B. Steinberg, was deputy national security adviser to President Clinton and is presumably a candidate for a top job in a Kerry administration.
www.nytimes.com /pages/politics/trail   (4042 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
But even then, the future Pentagon adviser and TV pundit was gripped by subjects far weightier than the next sock hop.
Of course, the people shaping administration policy aren't dusting off their old grad-school seminar notebooks before making decisions.
To his displeasure, he found that his second-strike theories were used by other policy makers to justify a theory he disagreed with strenuously: Mutually Assured Destruction, or
home.comcast.net /~neilswidey/analyst.htm   (1891 words)

  
 US China Commission Hearing on October 30, 2003- Hearing on
During the Reagan administration Dr. Pillsbury was the Assistant Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Planning; under President Bush he was Special Assistant for Asian Affairs in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, reporting to Andrew W. Marshall, Director of Net Assessment.
Timothy Thomas is an analyst at the Foreign Military Studies Office (FMSO) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
He has also been a strategist for Asia for the Department of the Army, served on the international security policy staff of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and, most recently, as an Army Colonel, has been Director of the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College.
www.uscc.gov /hearings/2001_02hearings/h01_r8_3.htm   (536 words)

  
 Submerging Markets™ : March 2004 Archives
From the standpoint of First World foreign policy, this is yet another example of the fundamental ambivalence that First World powers like the US, France, and the UK continue to display toward popular movements and democratic choice in developing countries.
Given the banks’ unwillingness to provide Mexico’s government with any more loans, the skepticism that foreign investors had toward the country, and the government’s reluctance to get tougher with foreign banks and its own domestic elites, Mexico had little choice but to rely on its own resources to finance investment.
In the wake of the debt crisis, “foreign” investors -- including members of the domestic elite who secretly repatriated flight capital to avoid taxes and conceal their investments -- replaced foreign bankers as the leading suppliers of finance to Mexico and other “emerging markets, ” providing more than three-fourths of Mexico’s entire capital budget.
bloodbankers.typepad.com /submerging_markets/2004/03   (9498 words)

  
 War Without End :: View topic - JINSA Zionist Perle/Wolfowitz Cabal in Bush Regime Push Iraq
And just as was the case two decades ago, dozens of their members have ascended to powerful government posts, where their advocacy in support of the same agenda continues, abetted by the out-of-government adjuncts from which they came.
Prominent foreigners, in and out of government, express their opposition to U.S. policies with unprecedented frequency and severity, especially since Bush announced his determination to make war against Iraq.
Papandreou said he expected EU foreign ministers meeting in Brussels on Monday to declare full support for U.N. efforts to deal with the problem of Iraq's suspected weapons of mass destruction and urge a diplomatic solution to the crisis.
www.itszone.co.uk /zone0/viewtopic.php?t=2700   (9163 words)

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