مبدأ واين‌برگر

مبدأ واين‌برگر Weinberger Doctrine كان قائمة من النقاط التي تحدد متى يمكن للولايات المتحدة أن ترسل قوات في اشتباكات عسكرية. المبدأ أعلنه وزير الدفاع الأمريكي كاسپر واين‌برگر في 28 نوفمبر 1984، في خطاب بعنوان "استخدامات القوة العسكرية" ألقاه في نادي الصحافة الوطنية في واشنطن العاصمة

كانت عقيدة واينبرجر نتاجاً للدروس الجماعية المستفادة من حرب ڤيتنام ورغبة الحكومة الأمريكية في تجنب مثل تلك المستنقعات في المستقبل.

مبدأ واين‌برگر:

1. The United States should not commit forces to combat unless the vital national interests of the United States or its allies are involved.
2. U.S. troops should only be committed wholeheartedly and with the clear intention of winning. Otherwise, troops should not be committed.
3. U.S. combat troops should be committed only with clearly defined political and military objectives and with the capacity to accomplish those objectives.
4. The relationship between the objectives and the size and composition of the forces committed should be continually reassessed and adjusted if necessary.
5. U.S. troops should not be committed to battle without a "reasonable assurance" of the support of U.S. public opinion and Congress.
6. The commitment of U.S. troops should be considered only as a last resort.

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 خلفية سياسية

Two unconnected events led to Weinberger's speech. One was his wanting to respond to the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing, in which 241 United States Marines, Sailors, and Soldiers died. U.S. forces were in Lebanon as part of an ill-fated U.S. peace enforcement mission undertaken despite the reportedly vigorous opposition of the U.S. Secretary of Defense and the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff who argued that its purpose was never clearly defined and that the chaotic, violent situation in Lebanon could not be brought under control by any outside force. They further argued that any U.S. military contingent entered into the Lebanon conflict would become a convenient and prominent target for the various factions in the civil war.^{[بحاجة لمصدر]} The second event was the invasion of Grenada on October 25, 1983. U.S. and allied forces invaded Grenada after a pro-Soviet military coup ousted the constitutional government.

An older event, but one which probably had a stronger influence on U.S. foreign policy, Presidential powers, and the commitment of U.S. military forces which may have precipitated articulation of the Weinberger Doctrine, was the legacy of the Vietnam War. From 1975 and the fall of South Vietnam to Communist forces, U.S. foreign policy had avoided the use of military force, without any officially stated policy for how to employ those powers.

 المعارضة

Not everyone agrees with these principles. Notably, the Secretary of State at the time of the Doctrine's publishing, Secretary of State George Shultz, "took strong public objection to them". He worried that without credible threats of military action, "American diplomacy...would be hamstrung by the military's supposed reluctance to become involved in 'limited' wars".

In his memoirs, An American Life, Ronald Reagan listed these principles and said they helped guide his Administration's foreign policy decisions. He recommended them to future Presidents.

NeoCons in the George H. W. Bush Administration objected to the Weinberger Doctrine as being unrealistic in the age of terrorism. They preferred a more muscular foreign policy, including preemptive wars. After the failures of the Iraq, Afghanistan and Libyan wars, the Weinberger Doctrine is getting a second look

 انظر أيضاً

• مبدأ بوش
• مبدأ پاول
• حرب ڤيتنام

 وصلات خارجية

• PBS.org: transcript of "The Uses of Military Power"