Was “neoconservatism” a reaction to détente?

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There's a lot of continuity, and it's just semantics, but the neoconservatism of the '90s was a successor to the Reagan Doctrine that sought to maintain "benevolent global hegemony" with what Bill Kristol and Robert Kagan referred to as "a Neo-Reaganite foreign policy of military strength and moral clarity". Reagan was reacting to a policy of Détente widely believed to have failed after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan while the neocons saw themselves as proactive in their opposition to Clinton era reductions in military spending, conversely seen by the public as common sense with the Soviet Union gone. They were pretty pessimistic about building off their idol's success because it seemed like nothing could galvanize a country divided by hot-button '90s Culture War issues, save for what a 2000 defense review described as a "catastrophic and catalyzing event- like a new Pearl Harbor".