Dr. Paul Wolfowitz
Deputy Secretary of Defense
On February 5, 2001, President Bush announced his intention to nominate Dr. Paul Wolfowitz to be Deputy Secretary of Defense. He was unanimously confirmed by the Senate on Feb. 28th and sworn in March 2, 2001 as the 28th Deputy Secretary of Defense. This is Dr. Wolfowitz's third tour of duty in the Pentagon.
From 1989 to 1993, Dr. Wolfowitz served as Under Secretary of Defense for Policy in charge of the 700-person defense policy team that was responsible to Secretary Dick Cheney for matters concerning strategy, plans, and policy. During this period Secretary Wolfowitz and his staff had major responsibilities for the reshaping of strategy and force posture at the end of the Cold War.

Under his leadership, the Policy Staff played a major role in reviewing war plans for the Gulf War, and developing and executing plans that successfully raised more than $50 billion in Allied financial support for the war and prevented Iraq from opening a second front with Israel. Other key initiatives included the development of the Regional Defense Strategy, the Base Force, and two presidential nuclear initiatives that led to the elimination of tens of thousands of U.S. and Soviet nuclear weapons.

During the Reagan administration, Dr. Wolfowitz served for three years as U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia - the fourth largest country in the world and the largest in the Moslem world. There he earned a reputation as a highly popular and effective Ambassador, a tough negotiator on behalf of American intellectual property owners, and a public advocate of political openness and democratic values. During his tenure, Embassy Jakarta was cited as one of the four best-managed embassies inspected in 1988.

Prior to that posting, he served three and a half years as Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, where he was in charge of U.S. relations with more than twenty countries. In addition to contributing to substantial improvements in U.S. relations with Japan and China, Assistant Secretary Wolfowitz played a central role in coordinating the U.S. policy toward the Philippines that supported a peaceful transition from the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos to democracy.

Dr. Wolfowitz's previous government service included:

Two years as head of the State Department's Policy Planning Staff (1981-82):
An earlier Pentagon tour as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Regional Programs (1977-80), where he helped create the force that later became the United States Central Command and initiated the Maritime Pre-positioning Ships, the backbone of the initial U.S. deployment twelve years later in Operation Desert Shield;
Four years (1973-77) in the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, working on the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks and a number of nuclear nonproliferation issues; and
A year as a Management Intern at the Bureau of the Budget (1966-67).
Dr. Wolfowitz taught previously at Yale (1970-73) and Johns Hopkins (1981). In 1993, he was the George F. Kennan Professor of National Security Strategy at the National War College. He has written widely on the subject of national strategy and foreign policy and was a member of the advisory boards of the journals Foreign Affairs and National Interest .

Among his many awards for public service are:
The Presidential Citizen's Medal,
The Department of Defense's Distinguished Public Service Medal,
The Department of State's Distinguished Honor Award,
The Department of Defense's Distinguished Civilian Service Medal, and
The Arms Control and Disarmament Agency's Distinguished Honor Award.
Dr. Wolfowitz received a bachelor's degree from Cornell University (1965) in mathematics, and a doctorate in political science from the University of Chicago (1972).

(Current as of March 2001)




Wolfowitz was één van de eerste binnen de Bush administratie om na 11 september Irak te beschuldigen van het bezit van massa-vernietigingswapens. Zou hij dan toch gelijk krijgen????

Het zijn geen havikken, maar aasgieren.

Een grote meneer, die Wolfowitz.

:usa Wolfowitz for President :usa

Ik heb Wolfowitz een paar keer ontmoet toen hij nog ambassadeur van de USA was in Indonesie.

De eerste keer was tijdens een feestje van de Amerikaanse ambassade. Ik herinner mij niet meer waarom ik was uitgenodigd en ik had ook teveel champagne gezopen op kosten van de Amerikanen.

Ontmoeten is een groot woord : hij verwelkomde elke genodigde en gaf iedere binnenkomende gast een hand en zei dan welcome, have fun of zoiets. Ik heb hem een hand gegeven, en dat is alles haha. Verder heb ik mij nooit te ver verwijderd van de champagne bar.

De tweede keer was toen Wolfowitz een speech over buitenlandse politiek kwam geven in de Mercantile Club. Ook daar vloeide de champagne bij beken. Hij leek mij te herkennen, want hij kwam mij een hand geven. Hij zal wel gedacht hebben : dat is die Belg die onze champagne kwam leegdrinken.

Wat ik mij wel herinner is dat hij redelijk vloeiend Indonesisch spreekt en zijn vrouw ook.