Center for Security Policy
Center for Security Policy is a Washington-based organization set up by the hardline neocon Frank Gaffney, who worked in the defence department during the Ronald Reagan era. According to Jim Lobe, it is a "a small think tank funded mainly by U.S. defence contractors, far-right foundations, and right-wing Zionists".[1] It operates with the tagline 'promoting peace through strength', by which they appear to mean that global US dominance is the route to peace.
The Center states its mission as follows:
- To identify challenges and opportunities likely to affect American security, broadly defined, and to act promptly and creatively to ensure that they are the subject of focused national examination and effective action.[2]
The Center has run campaigns and research on the subjects of nuclear deterrents, the war of ideas, weapons in space, Islamism and terror, among others.[3] Indeed Frank J. Gaffney Jnr describes his Center for Security Policy as "the special forces in the war of ideas"[4], stating that it has the advantage over a think tank of not being "slow and unwieldy" and being "able to turn around a product in a matter of hours".[5]
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History
1976-1988
Important in itself, the Committee on the Present Danger’s (CPD) second incarnation in the 1970s and early 1980s was an extremely important predecessor to the Center for Security Policy. Set up as an independent and not-for-profit organisation, it was to assess the Soviet Union’s capabilities and threat to the United States in a non-partisan way. The group was originally called ‘Team B’ in opposition to the ‘Team A’ which currently did this job for the CIA, and had a political base through the Coalition for a Democratic Majority which was founded to try and fight back against any concessions made by the Democrats to the Soviet Union with regards to Foreign Policy. In 1976, this group helped set up the Committee for Present Danger to put pressure on Democrat President Jimmy Carter. The parallels with groups such as the Center for Security Policy can be shown by looking at who have been members of both – Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, and even Ronald Reagan in 1979.
Center for Security Policy Board of Directors
Chairman of the Board
- James T. de Graffenreid Chairman & President, HP Associates
Directors
- M.D.B. Carlisle Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs, and former Chief of Staff to Senator Thad Cochran
- Terry Elkes Principal & Co-Owner, Apollo Partners, LLC
- Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. President, Center for Security Policy
- Lt. Col. Marlin L. Hefti, USMC (Ret.) Vice President, Van Scoyoc Associates
- Charles M. Kupperman
- Dominic J. Monetta President, Resource Alternatives, Inc.
- David P. Steinmann (JINSA)
- Allen M. Taylor Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
National Security Advisory Council
CSP Board of Advisors has been renamed the National Security Advisory Council(NSAC). Most of its memberships overlaps with the Committee on the Present Danger, including one of the same honorary co-chair.
- Jon Kyl - Honorary co-chairman
- James Woolsey - Honorary co-chairman
Contact
Website: http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org
Related Articles
- Jim Lobe, Neo-Cons Driving Iran Divestment Campaign, InterPress Service, 11 May 2007.
Notes
- ↑ Jim Lobe, Neo-Con Superhawk Earns His Wings on Port Flap, IPS News, 24 February 2006.
- ↑ Center for Security Policy "The Center's Role in National Security Policy accessed 26th February 2008
- ↑ Center for Security Policy Center for Security Policy Projects accessed 26th February 2008
- ↑ Common Dreams News Center Neo-Con Superhawk Earns His Wings on Port Flap accessed 26th February 2008
- ↑ The Washington Times Keeper of the flame for foreign-policy hard-liners accessed 26th of February 2008
