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Analyzes the national security strategy (NSS) of U.S. President George W. Bush and how it could represent the most sweeping shift in U.S. strategy since the Cold War. Bush's equation of terrorists with tyrants as sources of danger; The legal basis for preemptive attacks; The need for hegemony; The issue of removing the causes of terrorism and tyranny; How Bush's NSS differs from its predecessors; Possible sources of weaknesses in the NSS; The search for support from U.S. allies. INSET: Power's Paper Trail.