A 1992 leaked Pentagon report pre-declared US unilateral global hegemony and preemptive war

Evidence

The Defense Planning Guidance report was not intended for public consumption but was leaked to the New York Times and the Washington Post. The document stated that the first objective of the United States should be to “prevent the re-emergence of a new rival.” It must “establish and protect a new order” so that potential competitors would realize that “they need not aspire to a greater role or pursue a more aggressive posture to protect their legitimate interests.” In short, a Pax Americana should be established on the military, political, and economic fronts. Even advanced industrialized nations would be discouraged from seeking to “overturn the [US] established political and economic order.” It followed from this that the United States would act alone if it needed to, in a unilateral manner, with no questions asked. This, the report stated, would guarantee world stability in a way that neither the UN nor any other multilateral coalitions could. In order to maintain world stability, the report continued, the United States had a right to wage preemptive war on any aggressor. It named a number of state actors as aggressors, from Iraq and North Korea to India and Japan. Post-Soviet Russia was also viewed as a potentially destabilizing force. Preemptive strikes were warranted against any threat to US interests. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 429

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The 1992 Defense Planning Guidance openly proposed unilateral US global hegemony; The 1992 Pentagon planning report explicitly planned US global dominance and preemptive war; The 1992 Wolfowitz report pre-declared US global hegemony and preemptive war ambitions (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• The 1992 Pentagon planning report explicitly planned US global dominance and preemptive war #corroborates (1.00)
• The 1992 Wolfowitz report pre-declared US global hegemony and preemptive war ambitions #corroborates (0.95)
• The leaked 1992 DPG report called for preventing any rival great power from emerging #expands (0.92) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 383
• The Bush Doctrine was a plan to secure US global hegemony through preemptive war. #expands (0.82) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 485
• The Bush Doctrine justified preemptive war to preserve oil-linked regional hegemony #expands (0.78)