On June 1, 2002, President Bush “told nearly one thousand graduates at the United States Military Academy at West Point that the Cold War doctrines of containment and deterrence were irrelevant and that sometimes the only strategy for defeating America’s new enemies would be to strike them first. The new doctrine was known as preemptive war, and although the president never mentioned Iraq by name, his intent was clear.”
– Elisabeth Bumiller, Condoleezza Rice: An American Life, Pages 184-185