(The neocons wanted a “new Pearl Harbor” so that they could press for an American takeover of the world.)

Project for the New American Century, posted at Information Clearing House

… To preserve American military preeminence in the coming decades, the Department of Defense must move more aggressively to experiment with new technologies and operational concepts, and seek to exploit the emerging revolution in military affairs…

[I]nformation technologies are having the same kind of transforming effects on military affairs as they are having in the larger world. The effects of this military transformation will have profound implications for how wars are fought, what kinds of weapons will dominate the battlefield and, inevitably, which nations enjoy military preeminence.

The United States enjoys every prospect of leading this transformation…

Any serious effort at transformation must occur within the larger framework of U.S. national security strategy, military missions and defense budgets… A transformation strategy that solely pursued capabilities for projecting force from the United States, for example, and sacrificed forward basing and presence, would be at odds with larger American policy goals and would trouble American allies.

Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor… [Emphasis added.]

(Of course, the new Pearl Harbor of September 11 not only gave the neocons an excuse to push their agenda for American hegemony, it succeeded in reducing the objections of our allies to America’s increased militarism, at least for a while.)

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