Schneier on Security

ResearcherZero • March 27, 2026 8:38 PM

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Everything that Pete Hesgeth has said about Iran, was more or less said by Donald Rumsfeld in regard to the invasion of Iraq. American plans to dominate the Gulf and strategy papers to achieve this, have been drawn by think tanks and implemented since Regan.

It has not mattered who has been in government, or which party, each and every nation in the Middle East on the list of those seen as crucial to US dominance has seen invasion, regime change and conflict in line with goals outlined by the Project of for the New American Century (PNAC) and the think tanks before and after them. Project 2025 for example, or the Clean Break report (A New Strategy for Securing the Realm) – which was produced by a study group headed by Richard Perle (on behalf of Benjamin Netanyahu).

Similar national security strategy papers such as George W Bush’s paper of September 2002, have been drawn up since 1940. However, the planning time on how to manage a country after it has been invaded, has significantly been reduced from the two years the United States took to develop management policy prior to invading Germany.

Bush’s administration provided only 50 days to the team who would manage Iraq before invading. Bush provided that team with no staff, offices in a long-unoccupied building devoid of any equipment and no input or assistance from the administration regarding what strategy Bush and his pals would pursue in Iraq. Nor were there any plans on cleaning up depleted uranium from armor piercing rounds and other hazardous material unleashed by the war. (I’m not hinting at any lack of adequate planning there, then, here or now.) 😐

https://web.archive.org/web/20181201115548if_/https://www.smh.com.au/opinion/a-think-tank-war-why-old-europe-says-no-20030307-gdge3k.html

“THE great struggles of the twentieth century between liberty and totalitarianism ended with a decisive victory for the forces of freedom — and a single sustainable model for national success: freedom, democracy, and free enterprise. In the twenty-first century…”

‘https://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/20/politics/full-text-bushs-national-security-strategy.html

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