Settas's Freeport Military Academy "Settas Doctrine" speech

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The Freeport Military Academy, the country's elite war college for 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 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:

  • "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."

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."

Reception

Belhavia

Political Right

Political Left

Anticommunist World

Emmeria

Rodarion

Arthurista

Communist World

DSRA

Estovnia