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Wolfowitz, Paul Dundes 1943–, American political figure, b. Brooklyn, N.Y., grad. Cornell Univ. (B.A. 1965), Univ. of Chicago (Ph.D. 1972). In 1966 he entered government service, and worked for the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (1973–77) and as deputy assistant secretary of defense (1977–80). During the Reagan years, he became a Republican neoconservative and served as assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs (1983–86) and ambassador to Indonesia (1986–89). Under President George H. W. Bush Bush, George Herbert Walker, 1924–, 41st President of the United States (1989–93), b. Milton, Mass., B.A., Yale Univ., 1948. Career in Business and Government

..... Click the link for more information. , Wolfowitz was undersecretary for defense policy (1989–93) and was involved in strategic planning during the first Persian Gulf War Persian Gulf Wars or Gulf Wars, two conflicts involving Iraq and U.S.-led coalitions in the late 20th and early 21st cent.

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First Persian Gulf War, Jan.–Feb.
..... Click the link for more information. . He left government in 1993 to become dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, but returned to the Pentagon under President George W. Bush Bush, George Walker, 1946–, 43d president of the United States (2001–), b. New Haven, Conn. The eldest son of President George H. W. Bush, he was was raised in Texas and, like his father, attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass.
..... Click the link for more information. as deputy secretary of defense (2001–05), serving as an important adviser to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld Rumsfeld, Donald Henry, 1932–, American government official, b. Chicago, grad. Princeton (B.A.). A Republican with a reputation as a skilled political infighter, he was a congressman from Illinois from 1963 to 1969, when he resigned to become director of the
..... Click the link for more information. . After the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, the hawkish Wolfowitz actively supported the "war on terror" and was a key proponent of preemptive strikes and unilateral military action against Iraq. In 2005 he became president of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), specialized agency of the United Nations, with headquarters at Washington, D.C.; also called the World Bank.
..... Click the link for more information. (World Bank), where he has promoted debt relief for poor nations and sought to reduce the misuse of World Bank loans by corrupt government officials.

Bibliography

See L. Crane, Wolfowitz on Point (2003).

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