Truman National Security Project

The Truman National Security Project describes itself as being "dedicated to forging a Democratic foreign policy founded on strength and security, grounded in a strong military and active diplomacy, and committed to furthering the American ideals of freedom, dignity, and opportunity worldwide." [1]

One of its founders, Rachel Kleinfeld, described the impetus for the project as national security as being an asset for the Republicans. "We decided there really was a need to create a movement of Democrats to stand up for these ideas and to really start to think about it, very much as a counterpart to the neoconservatives of the 1970s," she told Forward. The group aims to change the Democratic Party so that national security is seen as a strength rather than as a weakness. [2]

At its 2005 conference one of the panel discussions was on "what Democrats did wrong, Republicans did right, and neo-cons did better" and "the need to increase the size of the deployable military." [3]

Contact details

Truman National Security Project
P.O. Box 11575
Washington, D.C., 20008-1575
Web: http://www.trumanproject.org/index.php

External links

• E.J. Kessler, "FACES FORWARD: Putting National Security on the Democratic Agenda", Forward, June 3, 2005.