Bush Foreign Policy Team

Over the past three decades, an informal coalition of militarists, social conservatives, and ideologues has spun a web of power and influence--a network of policy institutes, think tanks, government entities, corporations, and political projects. In the mid-1990s the Project for the New American Century was established as a political project whose objective was to ensure that its own radical foreign and military policy agenda became official government doctrine.

Many of PNAC's founding members joined the Bush administration's foreign policy team, while others continue to hawk their agenda from the positions in nongovernmental institutes that advise the administration. The Bush Foreign Policy Team also includes other foreign policy and national security radicals who largely share PNAC's perspective about the centrality of U.S. supreme power and purpose in the 21st century. This 20-member team has consolidated its control over U.S. international relations in the second Bush administration, but its ambitious agenda for global control has become mired in quagmires of its own making.