There is some fabulous material like "deter rise of new great-power competitor" from a page 2 chart of this
document written in 2000.
We hear some talk about China but are we trying to deter the rise of the EU? The dollar is at a four year low verses the euro. If the dollar is to remain strong, don't we need to keep venting it into overseas pockets? What if the euro were to supplant the dollar? Almost makes you want to topple a certain despot with close ties to Western Europe...