Announcing the Formation of the Center for the National Security Interest

“Addressing the vital national security issues of our time.”

We are pleased to announce the formation of a new pro-defense national security think tank--the Center for the National Security Interest (CNSI). The Center is a non-partisan, non-profit organization whose purpose is to help ensure that America's national security interests are placed first and foremost in US policy. It is unique in that it is led and staffed in large part by veterans of the United States armed forces. CNSI supports all policies that serve to conserve and maintain America's national security strengths and its armed forces. CNSI opposes all measures and policies which have the effect of disarming, dismantling or dismembering US national military power be they attempts to disarm the nation of its strategic nuclear deterrent or its conventional military forces. CNSI opposes as a matter of principle the signing and ratification of all international treaties (such as the recently signed Treaty of Moscow) which seek to implement these policies and supports the addition of amendments to such treaties to lessen the impact of their harmful effects and make them less objectionable from a national security standpoint.

The Center for the National Security Interest strongly supports and applauds President Bush in continuing to prosecute America’s just war against Islamicist terrorists and fanatics and those nations that support them. CNSI supports the implementation of the tenets of the Weinburger Doctrine, which states that the US should only fight wars that are just and that further the US vital interest only after all reasonable alternatives have first been exhausted and with total national commitment including the support of a sizable majority of the US population. CNSI adds its voice to those of retired Generals Schwartzkopf, Zinni, Hoar, Clark, Scowcroft, Sheehan, Shalikashvili and many members of former President George H.W. Bush’s Gulf War cabinet including former Secretary of States Jim Baker and Lawrence Eagleburger, former HUD Secretary Jack Kemp and until recently, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Colin Powell in urging the Administration to abandon its plans for an unnecessary and unprovoked invasion of Iraq. CNSI believes that such an undertaking would be fraught with potential negative consequences for US national security.

The Center believes that it is imperative to maintain strong, robust ground forces including a large force of tanks and tracked armor assets to ensure that America is prepared to fight and win large-scale wars in the future. Specifically, we strongly oppose efforts to reduce the size of the Army below its current level of ten active divisions and oppose the currently planned phased elimination of its “heavy” armored brigades and all of its tanks as part of current plans for Army transformation. CNSI strongly supports the employment of Air-Mech-Strike ‘3D’ tracked armor assets to revolutionize the battlefield in assisting more conventional heavy units in defeating the enemy with maximum speed and effectiveness.

The Center welcomes media inquiries about our new organization. Please contact us at the E-mail address at the bottom of this page if you would like to learn more about us or if you are interested in being considered for CNSI membership. Below is a short list of the principles and causes for which we stand. If you agree with most of the principles expressed below, please check back at our website for further updates and more comprehensive articles in support of our national security priorities.

Top CNSI Priorities to Enhance
and Promote US National Security

1. Support President Bush’s laudable just war against Islamicist terrorist groups

2. Oppose an unnecessary, unprovoked invasion of Iraq to avoid unavoidable blowback and likely extremely adverse policy consequences to US national security unless and until US ground troops are actually sent into harm's way at which time CNSI will pledge its support for the war effort.

3. Oppose all conventional and particularly nuclear disarmament measures and international agreements such as the Treaty of Moscow which mandate such measures in order to preserve the US strategic nuclear deterrent and ensure our ability to deter nuclear attack from our enemies

4. Build a comprehensive national missile defense system capable of defending America from a nuclear attack of any size and from any country.

5. Retain a strong and robust Army at current levels and oppose the current itineration of Army Transformation to a tankless, trackless Army

6. Enforce the Monroe Doctrine with regards to Communist expansion in Latin America

7. Re-implement the Reagan Doctrine of supporting and encouraging all anti-Communist resistance movements worldwide

8. Halt current US trade, aid and export policies, which serve to appease Communist Chinese and North Korean tyrants including the construction of two large nuclear reactors which would enable North Korea to greatly increase its rate of nuclear warhead production.

9. Counter, disrupt and divide the Sino-Russian axis of evil to forestall emergence of a global peer competitor capable of challenging the US and halt its WMD transfers and military assistance to its rogue state affiliates

10. Implement stronger border security measures to help advert further terrorist attacks to include the deportation of illegal immigrants and a 75% reduction in legal immigration

11. Halt all US funding of the United Nations and its affiliates and achieve a US withdrawal from that vociferously anti-American organization.

12. End US involvement in UN peacemaking missions, which do nothing to further the US interest and bring our troops home from Bosnia, Kosovo and other UN missions in order to use them to help better provide for continental defense at home.

13. Abandon the Bush Administration’s new doctrine of pre-emptive strikes and return to a national security policy based on proven concepts of containment and most importantly deterrence, which have kept the nuclear peace for over half a century

14. Cutback or eliminate expensive and redundant weapons programs to help fund more urgent priorities like building a national missile defense.

15. Support the implementation of policies which serve to actively promote and encourage the adoption by the world's nations of comprehensive constitutionally-guaranteed political and economic freedoms as one of the best means to solve world poverty and promote world peace.