Security Affairs. Robert Blackwill, former member of the United States National Security Council. Stephen Hadley, former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Global Strategic Affairs. Scooter Libby, former Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. Richard Perle, former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Global Strategic Affairs. Condoleezza Rice, former member of the United States National Security Council. Paul Wolfowitz, former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. Dov Zakheim, former Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Strategy, Plans, & Forces. Robert Zoellick, former Counselor of the United States Department of State. In early 1999, the Vulcans held their first meeting in Austin, Texas, which was attended by Cheney and Shultz. The group communicated regularly afterward. During 1999 and 2000, a second group was formed under the leadership of Donald Rumsfeld to deal specifically with the subject of missile defense. While distinct from the Vulcans, it did include Rice, Wolfowitz, Hadley and Perle alongside Shultz and various academics and scientists, including Martin Anderson of Stanford University and Lowell Wood of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Campaign George W. Bush laid out his foreign policy plans on October 11, 2000, at the second Gore-Bush presidential debate against his Democratic rival Vice President Al Gore.If we're an arrogant nation, they'll resent us. If we're a humble nation, but strong, they'll welcome us. Our nation stands alone right now in the world in terms of power, and that's why we have to be humble, and yet project strength in a way that promotes freedom."The vice president and I have a disagreement about the use of troops", Bush announced. "He believes in nation building. I would be very careful about using troops as nation builders", he clarified, expressing particular concerns about the Clinton Administration's recent involvement in Somalia and Haiti, by telling Gore:I'm not so sure the role of the United States is to go around the world and say this is the way it's got to be. We can help. And maybe it's just our difference in government, the way we view government. I want to empower the people. I want to help people help themselves, not have government tell people what to do. I just don't think it's the role of the United States to walk into a country and say, we do it this way, so should you."I believe the role of the military is to fight and win war", Bush went on to explain,