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[[File:Freeport Military Academy pic.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The [[Freeport Military Academy]], the country's elite {{wp|War College|war college}} for [[Imperial Armed Forces of Belhavia|Imperial military officers]] and the site of President Settas's famous doctrinal speech in January 1981.]]
'''President [[Julian Settas]]'s Freeport Military Academy "Settas Doctrine" speech''' refers to a speech newly-inaugurated [[President of Belhavia|Belhavian President]] [[Julian Settas]] gave at the [[Freeport Military Academy]] on January 30<sup>th</sup>, 1981, outlining the so-called "'''Settas Doctrine'''" of an aggressive, forceful, and assertive anti-communist {{wp|foreign policy}} of {{wp|military engagement}}, defense re-armament, and {{wp|force projection}} against the [[Otterup Pact|Communist World]] and in defense of the [[Free Pardes|Free World]] in the [[Cold_War_(Pardes)#Late_Cold_War:_1978_-_2001|late Cold War]]. 

==Settas Doctrine==

In his speech, which lasted approximately 56 minutes, Settas outlined a litany of general and specific initiatives, policies, and goals:

* {{wp|Rollback#Reagan_administration|Rollback}} of [[Otterup Pact|Communist Regimes]] [[Pardes|Worldwide]]: In a break from the so-called "{{wp|Détente}}" policy in the late 1960s and 1970s under the [[Vern Callan|Callan]]-[[Berel Levine|Levine]] era and the earlier "{{wp|Containment}}" policy of the 1950s and 1960s under the [[Yavin Leibniz|Leibniz]]-[[Edward Kalian|Kalian]] era, Settas called for the forceful {{wp|regime change}} of existing Communist and allied socialist/hard leftist governments.
** [[Global Anticommunist Relief and Support Act|Immediate aid and support to Dacia]] with all due haste

* [[Military Modernization and Reform Act|Re-Armament, Modernization, and Reform of the Imperial Military]]: Citing what he called the "callous neglect" of the Imperial military under the [[Vern Callan|Callan]]-[[Berel Levine|Levine]] era, Settas vowed to [[Strategic Naval Initiative Act|rebuild, re-arm, and expand the Imperial Navy]], invest in new {{wp|Precision-guided munition|precision-guided munitions}} and flight platforms, such as the [[F2 Lioness]], for the [[Imperial Air Force (Belhavia)|Imperial Air Force]], and to add 100,000 men to the [[Imperial Army (Belhavia)|Imperial Army]] by 1990 and to develop new armored technologies. 

* "{{wp|Peace_through_strength#Ronald_Reagan_and_Republican_Party|Resolute Diplomacy}}": About twenty minutes into his speech, Settas argued passionately for a "resolute diplomacy" based on the ancient idea of {{wp|Peace_through_strength#Ronald_Reagan_and_Republican_Party|peace through strength}} that [[Belhavia]] and the [[Free Pardes|Free World]] should aggressively and unfailingly counter the [[Otterup Pact|Communist bloc]] move-by-move and "thereby prove our resilience to our [Communist] foes, by showing them that our values of freedom, capitalism, and representative government are undying, unyielding, and unrelenting."

* {{wp|Deterrence theory|Nuclear Deterrence}}: He posited that the Free World [[Belhavia_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction#Nuclear_Triad|needed to re-establish a credible nuclear deterrence]] as a last-ditch act to deter Communist aggression, and he called for a reversal of [[Belhavia_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction#1960s-1970s|the 1970s-era Belhavian nuclear testing ban]], an action he [[Belhavia_and_post-1981_nuclear_testing_controversies#Presidential_Decree_.23112|accomplished a mere month and a half later]].

==Notable remarks==

{{quotation|''"[[Belhavia|We]] must send aid, support, and troops to our [[Free Pardes|anticommunist friends and brothers]] in [[Dacia]] in the war-torn [[Ashizwe#south Ashizwe|Southwest Ashizwe]] region."''}}

{{quotation|''"The callous and continued neglect of our proud Navy must and will come to an end...I envision a brighter, stronger future where we realize [[Strategic Naval Initiative Act|the goal]] of a {{wp|600-ship Navy|450-ship Navy}} by 1990, which will double the Navy's ship count within a decade and secure anticommunist hegemony over the seas of [[Pardes|our world]] against the looming [[Otterup Pact|Communist threat]]."''}} 

{{quotation|''"Our times demand a new, firmer set of foreign relations in our tumultuous world...a resolute diplomacy that matches the Communists' latest chess move on [[Guide to World Geopolitics (Pardes)|the global board of geopolitics]] and successfully checks it, which will thereby prove our resilience to our foes, by showing them that our values of freedom, capitalism, and representative government are undying, unyielding, and unrelenting."''}}

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===Anticommunist World===
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