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This dossier documents the United States defense policy.

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We are in the process of rebuilding our dossiers with statements and other documents issued by the new Administration.

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Tab 1 lists US priorities with regard to Africa, major USG statements, latest USG statements, USG fact sheets, and USG reports. 

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Microphone icon representing hearings held before CongressJanuary 27, 2009 - FULL COMMITTEE - To receive testimony on the challenges facing the Department of Defense.
 

Image of the Front Cover - War on Terror UpdateThe National Security Strategy,  March 2006. Our national security strategy is founded upon two pillars:

The first pillar is promoting freedom, justice, and human dignity – working to end tyranny, to promote effective democracies, and to extend prosperity through free and fair trade and wise development policies.

The second pillar of our strategy is confronting the challenges of our time by leading a growing community of democracies.  Link to Full PDF Document Full PDF Document (669 KB)

 

Globalizing Cooperative Threat Reduction: A Survey of Options CRS Report. Sharon Squassoni, Specialist in National Defense Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division. Updated October 5, 2006. Increasingly, Congress and the Bush Administration are looking to utilize nonproliferation assistance programs, including cooperative threat reduction, to help reduce the risk of terrorist access to weapons of mass destruction (WMD).

 

Today's Nuclear Equation Just when we thought that the end of the Cold War also meant the end of nighttime terrors about nuclear annihilation, that evil atomic specter, rising out of a terrible mushroom-shaped cloud, has reappeared. In the calculus of the Cold War, the world lived with the threat of two superpowers unleashing thousands of megatons of destructive power at each other—and thereby threatening the existence of the human race. Download Adobe Acrobat (PDF) version

 

Nuclear Weapons: Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty CRS Report. Jonathan Medalia Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division. Updated October 11, 2006.

A comprehensive test ban treaty, or CTBT, is the oldest item on the nuclear arms control agenda.

 

Sixth Biological Weapons Convention Review Conference
 Remarks and press availability by Assistant Secretary John C. Rood Nov. 20, 2006

 
 

Reports

National Strategy for Combating Terrorism
National Strategy for Combating Terrorism

 

National Security Strategy
National Security Strategy

 

Arms Control and Nonproliferation: A Catalog of Treaties and Agreements Jan 29, 2007

Project BioShield: Appropriations, Acquisitions, and Policy Implementation Issues for Congress March 8, 2007

 

The United States Defense Policy: A Dossier

President Barack Obama, left, with Sec. of Defense Robert Gates, right, walks across the South Lawn of the White House before boarding Marine One helicopter, Friday, Feb. 27, 2009 in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
President Barack Obama, left, with Sec. of Defense Robert Gates, right, walks across the South Lawn of the White House before boarding Marine One helicopter, Friday, Feb. 27, 2009 in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Key U.S. Policy Priorities

National Security and Nuclear Weapons: Maintaining Deterrence in the 21st Century A principal national security goal of the United States is to deter aggression against ourselves, our allies, and friends. The extension of a credible U.S. nuclear deterrent has been critical to allied security and removed the need for many key allies to develop their own nuclear forces.

Controlling the World's Most Dangerous Weapon Members of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty "cannot stand by and allow North Korea and Iran to ... arm themselves with nuclear weapons," says Stephen Rademaker, Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control and Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Nonproliferation. more | NL

Bolton Outlines Bush Administration's Nonproliferation Efforts The nonproliferation policy of the Bush administration is more properly described as counter-proliferation, says John Bolton, the State Department's top arms control official. "The front lines in our nonproliferation strategy extend beyond the well-known rogue states, to the trade routes and entities that are engaged in supplying the countries of greatest proliferation concern." more | FR | NL

Click on this link to retrieve recent statements on Nonproliferation. 

State's Bloomfield Outlines U.S. Position on Landmines The President has committed that after 2010, the U.S. will not have landmines of any kind that do not self-destruct or self-deactivate after a predetermined period -- usually within hours but in no case longer than 90 days after deployment. It is now the policy of the United States to eliminate from our inventory all non-detectable mines. more | FR | NL

Click on this link to retrieve recent statements on Landmines. 

Major US Government Statements

A select list of major statements On the United States and Africa with policy value.

Latest US Government Statements

This is a list of the 5 most recent items in reverse chronological order. 

US Government Fact Sheets

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