On September 23, 1999, presidential candidate George W. “Bush had given his first major address on foreign and defense policy. ‘If elected, I will set three goals,’ Bush told an enthusiastic crowd at the Citadel in South Carolina. ‘I will renew the bond of trust between the American president and the American military. I will defend the American people against missiles and terror. And I will begin creating the military of the next century.’ ”
– Stephen F. Hayes, Cheney, Page 276