 | Tod Lindberg - 2005 - 260 pages
...a policy of active preemption of terrorism. As explained in Bush's West Point speech of June 2002, "The war on terror will not be won on the defensive....world we have entered, the only path to safety is the path of action." Europeans by and large did not buy the Bush administration's arguments that Iraq and... | |
 | William M. Carpenter, David G. Wiencek - 2005 - 382 pages
...preemptively. The underpinnings of this strategy were outlined by President Bush in June 2002 as follows: We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his...world we have entered, the only path to safety is the path of action. And this nation will act.6 The new strategy, also known as the Bush Doctrine, embraces... | |
 | Peter A. French, Jason A. Short - 2005 - 324 pages
...new US security doctrine at the graduation ceremony at West Point in June 2002. The president stated: "The war on terror will not be won on the defensive....confront the worst threats before they emerge. In 59 the world we have entered, the only path to safety is the path of action. And this nation will act."... | |
 | Melvin Gurtov, Peter Van Ness - 2005 - 316 pages
...threats before they are fully formed." '' Bush has underscored the value of preemptive action: "Yet the war on terror will not be won on the defensive....and confront the worst threats before they emerge ... And our security will require all Americans to be forward-looking and resolute, to be ready for... | |
 | Timothy Shanahan - 2005 - 316 pages
...and missile defense are part of stronger security, and they're essential priorities for America. Yet the war on terror will not be won on the defensive....disrupt his plans, and confront the worst threats hefore they emerge. In the world we have entered, the only path to safety is the path of action. And... | |
 | Jake Blood - 2005 - 240 pages
...materialize,' President Bush warned, 'we will have waited too long.' The war on terrorism, he continued, 'will not be won on the defensive. We must take the...and confront the worst threats before they emerge.' If there was any doubt that the President was talking about taking pre-emptive action, he removed it... | |
 | Nationa U. S. National Security Council, U. s. National Security Council - 2005 - 97 pages
...facets of the terrorist threat. STRATEGIC INTENT " We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt bis plans and confront the worst threats before they emerge....world we have entered, the only path to safety is the path of action. And this nation will act," PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH JUNE 1, 2002 The intent of our... | |
 | John W. Dietrich - 2005 - 342 pages
...one could not guarantee rationality among terrorists. In this new, threatening world, Bush argued, "We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his...confront the worst threats before they emerge." In other words, the United States needed a strategy of "preemption." The idea of preemption is well established... | |
 | Yoram Dinstein, Fania Domb - 2005 - 367 pages
...articulated a traditional policy justification for the anticipatory self-defense doctrine, noting that "we must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his...and confront the worst threats before they emerge" and that "if we wait for threats to fully materialize, we will have waited too long". These themes... | |
 | Matthew Evangelista - 2005 - 542 pages
...Indeed, there is no longer a battlefield in a traditional sense. As President Bush said at West Point: "We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his...and confront the worst threats before they emerge. . . . Our security will require ... a military that must be ready to strike at a moment's notice in... | |
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We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans, and confront the worst threats before they emerge. In the world we have entered, the only path to safety is the path of action. And this nation will act. 
