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This article reports on a change in the U.S. government's national security strategy as revealed in a paper by National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley in March 2006. The document describes the terrorist threat as a "murderous ideology" that will require military force plus a "battle of ideas" to defeat. Hadley also called on other countries to assist the U.S. in the war on terrorism. The document outlined the U.S. policy of a preemptive first strike against terrorist nations, a policy thought to be aimed at Iran.