Project For A New American Century

AKA: PNAC

The PNAC and its members have long called for the United States to abandon the ABM Treaty. The PNAC also proposes to control the new "international commons" of space and "cyberspace" and pave the way for the creation of a new military service—U.S. Space Forces—with the mission of space control. In 1998, Donald Rumsfeld chaired a bipartisan commission on the US Ballistic Missile Threat towards advancement of these goals.

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

• 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.-Afganistan 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 - NOW PRESIDENT OF THE WORLD BANK
• Dov S. Zakheim - Department of Defense Comptroller
• Robert B. Zoellick - Office of the United States Trade Representative U.S. Trade Representative

PNAC's Site

In September 2000, the PNAC issued an 90-page report entitled Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategies, Forces, And Resources For A New Century, and proceeding "from the belief that America should seek to preserve and extend its position of global leadership by maintaining the preeminence of U.S. military forces." The report has been the subject of much analysis and criticism.
Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategies, Forces, And Resources For A New Century (pdf)