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Step 1: Meet the PNAC

The Project for the New American Century (PNAC) is a neoconservative think tank formed in the spring of 1997. PNAC's stated aims: “to shape a new century favorable to American principles and interests,” to achieve “a foreign policy that boldly and purposefully promotes American principles abroad,” “to increase defense spending significantly,” to challenge “regimes hostile to US interests and values,” and to “accept America's unique role in preserving and extending an international order friendly to our security, our prosperity, and our principles.”

PNAC’s Statement of Principles (6/3/1997): http://www.newamericancentury.org/statementofprinciples.htm

After the 2000 election of George W. Bush, many of the PNAC's members were appointed to key positions within the new President's administration:

(This will appear in table format on my website when complete)
Name Department Title Other remarks

Elliott Abrams
National Security Council
Representative for Middle Eastern Affairs
President of the Ethics and Public Policy Center

Richard Armitage
Department of State
Deputy Secretary of State

John R. Bolton
Department of State
Undersecretary for Arms Control and International Security Affairs

Dick Cheney
Bush Administration
Vice President
PNAC founder

Seth Cropsey
Voice of America
Director of the International Broadcasting Bureau

Paula Dobriansky
Department of State
Undersecretary of State for Global Affairs

Francis Fukuyama
President's Council on Bioethics
Council Member Professor of International Political Economy at Johns Hopkins University

Bruce Jackson
U.S. Committee on NATO President

Zalmay Khalilzad
U.S.-Afghanistan Embassy in Kabul
Ambassador

Lewis Libby
Bush Administration
Chief of Staff for the Vice President

Peter W. Rodman
Department of Defense
Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security

Donald Rumsfeld
Department of Defense
Secretary of Defense
PNAC founder

Randy Scheunemann
U.S. Committee on NATO, Project on Transitional Democracies, International Republican Institute Member
Founded the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq.

Paul Wolfowitz
Department of Defense
Deputy Secretary of Defense

Dov S. Zakheim
Department of Defense
Comptroller

Robert B. Zoellick
Office of the United States Trade Representative U.S. Trade Representative