Last year I sent out a list of what I consider to be great speeches/articles about which every security
professional ought to be aware.  I have not updated this list, but will do so over the next few months.

Michael M. Dunn 
Lt Gen, USAF 
President, National Defense University 
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Many of you have seen my reading list located on our NDU Information Resources web site
(<<http://www.ndu.edu/reading%20list.pdf>>   In addition, I recommend each of you review the following
eleven  speeches and articles to become more aware of this nation's War on Terrorism and our National
Security Strategy.   This list includes: 

1.      Bin Laden's Fatwah.  
Summary:  A declaration of war against the United States. Well worth your read -- in it UBL tells us what he
intends to do and why. 
Link: <http://ndunet.ndu.edu/nduspeeches/UsamahBin-MuhammadBin-Ladin.htm 

2.      President Bush's 2002 State of the Union Address (Axis of Evil).        
Summary:  Axis of Evil -- many people quote the axis part, but this is a major policy address that is much
deeper than just the axis part 
Link:  <http://ndunet.ndu.edu/nduspeeches/presidentbush.htm 
         
3.      Vice President Cheney's speech at the Heritage Foundation on the War on Terrorism, October 10, 2003.

Summary:  America Choices in War on Terror  -- I found this one the best single explanation of American 
foreign policy.  
Link:  <http://ndunet.ndu.edu/nduspeeches/cheney.htm 
<http://ndunet.ndu.edu/nduspeeches/cheney.htm> > 

4.  USDP Feith's Speech to the Council on Foreign Relations   "Progress in the Global War on Terrorism," 
November 13, 2003. 
Summary:  Three Part Strategy         
Link:  <http://ndunet.ndu.edu/nduspeeches/feith.htm 

5.      President Bush, The National Security Strategy of the United States, September 2002. 
Summary:  Fight for a just peace, defend against terrorists and tyrants, build great relations with super
powers and extend peace by 
encouraging free and open societies. 
Link:  <http://ndunet.ndu.edu/nduspeeches/presidentbush2.htm 

6.      Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz's Speech at Georgetown University: "Winning the Battle of Ideas:
Another Front in the War on Terror," 
October 30, 2003. 
Summary:  A trip report from the Iraqi front; reaching out to the Muslim world. 
Link:  <http://ndunet.ndu.edu/nduspeeches/wolfowitz.htm 

7.   John Lewis Gaddis,  "A Grand Strategy of Transformation," Foreign Policy, March 2003.   
Summary: An analysis past, present and future.  Transforming the Middle East once and for all into the
modern world. 
Link:  <http://ndunet.ndu.edu/nduspeeches/gaddis.htm 

8.  Prime Minister Blair's speech to House of Commons on Iraq.  March 18, 2003 
Summary:  Weapons of Mass Destruction and the case for war.         
Link:  <http://ndunet.ndu.edu/nduspeeches/blair.htm 

9.   Frederick Kagan, "War and Aftermath," Policy Review, No. 120, August September 2003.   
Summary:  Winning peace is harder than winning war.  This one, #5, #7, and the next two are not speeches,
but articles which bear on the central issues of our time. 
Link:  <http://ndunet.ndu.edu/nduspeeches/frederickkagan.htm 

10.     Robert Kagan, "Power and Weakness," Policy Review, No. 113.        
Summary:  Americans are from Mars - Europeans are from Venus.        
Link:  <http://ndunet.ndu.edu/nduspeeches/robertkagan.htm 

11.     Elaine Bunn,  "Preemptive Action:  When, How, and to What Effect,"  Strategic Forum #200, July 2003.
Summary:  Military and non-military options as part of the National Security Strategy. 
Link:  <http://ndunet.ndu.edu/nduspeeches/bunn.htm