Richard Perle | |
|---|---|
 Perle in 2009 | |
| Chairman of the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee | |
| In office 2001–2003 | |
| President | George W. Bush |
| 1st Assistant Secretary of Defense for Global Strategic Affairs | |
| In office August 5, 1981 – May 8, 1987 | |
| President | Ronald Reagan |
| Preceded by | Office Created |
| Succeeded by | Ronald F. Lehman |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Richard Norman Perle September 16, 1941 New York City, New York |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse |
Leslie Joan Barr (m. 1977) |
| Children | 1 |
| Alma mater | University of Southern California (BA) Princeton University (MA) |
| Profession | Political scientist |
Richard Norman Perle (born September 16, 1941) is an American political advisor who served as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Global Strategic Affairs under President Ronald Reagan. He began his political career as a senior staff member to Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson on the Senate Armed Services Committee in the 1970s.[2] He served on the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee from 1987 to 2004 where he served as chairman from 2001 to 2003 under the Bush administration before resigning due to conflict of interests.
A key advisor to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in the Bush administration, Perle was an architect of the Iraq War.[3][4] In March 2001, he claimed that the Saddam Hussein regime possessed weapons of mass destruction.[5][6] He has been described as a neoconservative hawk on foreign policy issues.[5] He has been involved with several think-tanks, including the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, the Center for Security Policy, the American Enterprise Institute, Project for the New American Century, and the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs.
- ^ Winik, Jay (1996). On the Brink: The Dramatic, Behind-the-Scenes Saga of the Reagan Era and the Men and Women Who Won the Cold War. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0684809826, 978-0684809823. OCLC 1150934651.
- ^ Wedel, Janine R. (2009). Shadow Elite: How the World's New Power Brokers Undermine Democracy, Government, and the Free Market. New York: Basic Books. pp.147–191. ISBN 0465091067, 978-0465091065. OCLC 1151240244.
- ^ "Protester throws shoe at Richard Perle". Associated Press. 18 February 2005. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
- ^ "Perle says he should not have backed Iraq war". Los Angeles Times. 4 November 2006. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
- ^ a b Conway, Patrick (2012). "Red Team: How the Neoconservatives Helped Cause the Iraq Intelligence Failure". Intelligence and National Security. 27 (4): 488–512. doi:10.1080/02684527.2012.688304. ISSN 0268-4527. S2CID 154946276.
- ^ Hersh, Seymour M. (4 May 2003). "Selective Intelligence: Donald Rumsfeld has his own special sources—are they reliable?". The New Yorker. Retrieved 16 July 2020.