Dick Cheney's Song of America | Harper's Magazine

Dick Cheney's Song of America | Harper's Magazine: Discussed in this essay: Defense Planning Guidance for the 1994–1999 Fiscal Years (Draft), Office of the Secretary of Defense, 1992 Defense Planning Guidance for the 1994–1999 Fiscal Years (Revised Draft), Office of the Secretary of Defense, 1992 Defense Strategy far the 1990s, Office of the Secretary of Defense, 1993 Defense Planning Guidance for the 2004–2009 Fiscal Years, Office of the Secretary of Defense, 2002 Few writers are more ambitious than the writers of government poli­cy papers, and few policy papers are more ambitious than Dick Cheney’s masterwork. It has taken several forms over the last decade and is in fact …