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The "Powell Doctrine" is a journalist-created term, named after General Colin Powell in the run-up to the 1990–91 Gulf War. It is based in large part on the Weinberger Doctrine, devised by Caspar Weinberger, former Secretary of Defense and Powell's former boss. The doctrine emphasizes U.S. national security interests, overwhelming strike capabilities with an emphasis on ground forces, and widespread public support. ==The Doctrine== The Powell Doctrine states that a list of questions all have to be answered affirmatively before military action is taken by the United States: # Is a vital national security interest threatened? # Do we have a clear attainable objective? # Have the risks and costs been fully and frankly analyzed? # Have all other non-violent policy means been fully exhausted? # Is there a plausible exit strategy to avoid endless entanglement? # Have the consequences of our action been fully considered? # Is the action supported by the American people? # Do we have genuine broad international support? As Powell said in an April 1, 2009 interview on ''The Rachel Maddow Show'', the Doctrine denotes the exhausting of all "political, economic, and diplomatic means", which, only if those means prove to be futile, should a nation resort to military force. Powell has expanded upon the Doctrine, asserting that when a nation is engaging in war, every resource and tool should be used to achieve decisive force against the enemy, minimizing U.S. casualties and ending the conflict quickly by forcing the weaker force to capitulate.〔Rachel Maddow, "(Colin Powell Talks Rachel Maddow )", ''MSNBC'', 1 April 2009.〕 This is in line with Western military strategy dating at least from Carl von Clausewitz's ''On War''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Powell Doctrine」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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