Powell Doctrine

... to our Gulf allies as a homeland missile defense shield, which was a purpose that it was never created for.

Yeah, I, I found the whole, uh, trajectory of our development of this and then the sale of it to be utterly fascinating, and one thing that I was thinking about as I was reading your piece was that th- this, uh, that this product, if you wanna call it that, kind of fit perfectly at the time with what was known as the Powell Doctrine.

Like, this was the, the idea from, uh, Colin Powell coming out of the Vietnam War that these endless wars are, uh, you know, these quagmires are a complete debacle and the US, if they're going to engage militarily around the world, needs to have very clear, clearly defined goals and a clear exit strategy so that they are basically in and out immediately.

And in that environment where the Powell Doctrine kind of dominates US military engagement around the world, it would make sense to have a, a missile interceptor system like this that works for a week, fire everything off, and then by week two, we're out.

Like, we've, we've followed that doctrine.

Obviously, everybody knows how the Powell Doctrine went.

We've, we dropped that 25 years ago.

Uh, yet we never kind of updated the systems that, that would go along with it.

And it wasn't a model of what we can do in every other conflict that comes along.

He developed the Powell Doctrine, a series of questions to be asked before the United States goes to war.

One of them, is there a plausible exit strategy to avoid endless entanglement, stands out as a red flag, warning against the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.

Powell was Secretary of State then and delivered a key speech at the U.N., outlining what turned out to be false intelligence that Saddam Hussein was hiding weapons of mass

power.

That was the Powell Doctrine, which I think reasonable people could agree we did not follow this time around.

It's good to see you.

We'll see you out on the campaign trail.

revisionist historical documents over time and that the narrative has been taken by very powerful voices and completely rerouted to mean something entirely different than anything close to truth.

Just to give one very quick example, the Powell Doctrine originally began when the Smithsonian in its earnest found and documented giant bones in Native American burial grounds across the United States, across many different parts of the world.

And we did actually have all of that printed in the annual annual reports of the Smithsonian.

It is still in print.