Settas's Freeport Military Academy "Settas Doctrine" speech
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President Julian Settas's Freeport Military Academy "Settas Doctrine" speech refers to a speech newly-inaugurated Belhavian President Julian Settas gave at the Freeport Military Academy on January 30th, 1981, outlining the so-called "Settas Doctrine" of an aggressive, forceful, and assertive anti-communist foreign policy of military engagement, defense re-armament, and force projection against the Communist World and in defense of the Free World in the 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:
- Rollback of Communist Regimes Worldwide: In a break from the so-called "Détente" policy in the late 1960s and 1970s under the Callan-Levine era and the earlier "Containment" policy of the 1950s and 1960s under the Leibniz-Kalian era, Settas called for the forceful regime change of existing Communist and allied socialist/hard leftist governments.
- Immediate aid and support to Dacia with all due haste
- Re-Armament, Modernization, and Reform of the Imperial Military: Citing what he called the "callous neglect" of the Imperial military under the Callan-Levine era, Settas vowed to rebuild, re-arm, and expand the Imperial Navy, invest in new precision-guided munitions and flight platforms, such as the F2 Lioness, for the Imperial Air Force, and to add 100,000 men to the Imperial Army by 1990 and to develop new armored technologies.
- "Resolute Diplomacy": About twenty minutes into his speech, Settas argued passionately for a "resolute diplomacy" based on the ancient idea of peace through strength that Belhavia and the Free World should aggressively and unfailingly counter the 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."
- Nuclear Deterrence: He posited that the Free World needed to re-establish a credible nuclear deterrence as a last-ditch act to deter Communist aggression, and he called for a reversal of the 1970s-era Belhavian nuclear testing ban, an action he accomplished a mere month and a half later.
Notable remarks
"We must send aid, support, and troops to our anticommunist friends and brothers in Dacia in the war-torn Southwest Ashizwe region."
"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 the goal of a 450-ship Navy by 1990, which will double the Navy's ship count within a decade and secure anticommunist hegemony over the seas of our world against the looming Communist threat."
"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 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."