The Project for the New American Century (PNAC) was an American think tank based in Washington, D.C. that lasted from 1997 to 2006. The PNAC's stated goal was "to promote American global leadership." Fundamental to the PNAC were the view that "American leadership is both good for America and good for the world" and support for "a Reaganite policy of military strength and moral clarity." The PNAC exerted influence on high-level U.S. government officials in the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush and affected the Bush Administration's development of military and foreign policies, especially involving national security and the Iraq War.
Project directors
[as listed on the PNAC website:]
William Kristol, Co-founder and Chairman
Robert Kagan, Co-founder
Bruce P. Jackson
Mark Gerson
Randy Scheunemann
Project staff
Ellen Bork, Deputy Director
Gary Schmitt, Senior Fellow
Thomas Donnelly, Senior Fellow
Reuel Marc Gerecht, Senior Fellow
Mitch Jackson, Senior Fellow
Timothy Lehmann, Assistant Director
Michael Goldfarb, Research Associate
Former directors and staff
Daniel McKivergan, Deputy Director
Signatories to Statement of Principles
Elliott Abrams
Gary Bauer
William J. Bennett
John Ellis "Jeb" Bush
Richard B. Cheney
Eliot A. Cohen
Midge Decter
Paula Dobriansky
Steve Forbes
Aaron Friedberg
Francis Fukuyama
Frank Gaffney
Fred C. Ikle
Donald Kagan
Zalmay Khalilzad
I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby
Norman Podhoretz
J. Danforth Quayle
Peter W. Roman
Stephen P. Rosen
Henry S. Rowen
Donald Rumsfeld
Vin Weber
George Weigel
Paul Wolfowitz
Signatories or contributors to other significant letters or reports
Elliott Abrams
Kenneth Adelman
Richard V. Allen
Richard L. Armitage
Gary Bauer
Jeffrey Bell
William J. Bennett
Jeffrey Bergner
John Bolton
Ellen Bork
Rudy Boschwitz
Linda Chavez
Eliot Cohen
Seth Cropsey
Midge Decter
Paula Dobriansky
Thomas Donnelly
Nicholas Eberstadt
Hillel Fradkin
Aaron Friedberg
Francis Fukuyama
Frank Gaffney
Jeffrey Gedmin
Reuel Marc Gerecht
Charles Hill
Bruce P. Jackson
Eli S. Jacobs
Michael Joyce
Donald Kagan
Robert Kagan
Stephen Kantany
Zalmay Khalilzad
Jeane Kirkpatrick
Charles Krauthammer
William Kristol
John Lehman
I. Lewis Libby
Tod Lindberg
Rich Lowry
Clifford May
John McCain
Joshua Muravchik
Michael O'Hanlon
Martin Peretz
Richard Perle
Daniel Pipes
Norman Podhoretz
Peter W. Rodman
Stephen P. Rosen
Donald Rumsfeld
Randy Scheunemann
Gary Schmitt
William Schneider, Jr.
Richard H. Shultz
Henry Sokolski
Stephen J. Solarz
Vin Weber
Leon Wieseltier
Marshall Wittmann
Paul Wolfowitz
R. James Woolsey
Dov Zakheim
Robert B. Zoellick
Associations with Bush administration
After the election of George W. Bush in 2000, a number of PNAC's members or signatories were appointed to key positions within the President's administration:
Name Position(s) held:
Elliott Abrams - Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Democracy, Human Rights, and International Operations (2001–2002), Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Near East and North African Affairs (2002–2005), Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Global Democracy Strategy (2005–2009) (all within the National Security Council)
Richard Armitage - Deputy Secretary of State (2001–2005)
John R. Bolton - Under-Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs (2001–2005), U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (2005–2006)
Dick Cheney - Vice President (2001–2009)
Eliot A. Cohen - Member of the Defense Policy Advisory Board (2007–2009)[62]
Seth Cropsey - Director of the International Broadcasting Bureau (12/2002-12/2004)
Paula Dobriansky - Under-Secretary of State for Global Affairs (2001–2007)
Aaron Friedberg - Deputy Assistant for National Security Affairs and Director of Policy Planning, Office of the Vice President (2003–2005)
Francis Fukuyama - Member of The President's Council on Bioethics (2001–2005)
Zalmay Khalilzad - U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan (11/2003 - 6/2005), U.S. Ambassador to Iraq (6/2005 - 3/2007) U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (2007–2009)
I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby - Chief of Staff to the Vice President of the United States (2001–2005)
Richard Perle - Chairman of the Board, Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee (2001–2003)
Peter W. Rodman - Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security (2001–2007)
Donald Rumsfeld - Secretary of Defense (2001–2006)
Randy Scheunemann - Member of the U.S. Committee on NATO, Project on Transitional Democracies, International Republican Institute
Paul Wolfowitz - Deputy Secretary of Defense (2001–2005) 10th President of the World Bank (2005-2007)
Dov S. Zakheim - Department of Defense Comptroller (2001–2004)
Robert B. Zoellick - Office of the United States Trade Representative (2001–2005), Deputy Secretary of State (2005–2006), 11th President of the World Bank (2007–Present)
The Ass-Clown Award
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