Discussed in this essay:
Defense Planning Guidance for the 1994–1999 Fiscal Years (Draft), Office of the Secretary of Defense, 1992
Defense Planning Guidance for the 1994–1999 Fiscal Years (Revised Draft), Office of the Secretary of Defense, 1992
Defense Strategy for the 1990s, Office of the Secretary of Defense, 1993
Defense Planning Guidance for the 2004–2009 Fiscal Years, Office of the Secretary of Defense, 2002
Few writers are more ambitious than the writers of government policy papers, and few policy papers are more ambitious than Dick Cheney’s masterwork. It has taken several forms over the last decade and is in…
