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In 1982, Oded Yinon, an Israeli journalist, wrote a report for a publication of the World Zionist Organization in which he advocated, "The dissolution of Syria and Iraq into ethnically or religiously unique areas such as in Lebanon [which] is Israel`s primary target on the Eastern front. Iraq, rich in oil on the one hand and internally torn on the other is guaranteed as a candidate for Israel`s targets. Its dissolution is even more important for us than that of Syria. Iraq is stronger than Syria. In the short run, it is Iraqi power which constitutes the greatest threat to Israel."
In 1996, an Israeli think tank with many prominent American neo-conservatives, issued a report in which they advocated for Israel to "Work closely with Turkey and Jordan to contain, destabilize, and roll-back some of its most dangerous threats," among them, to remove Saddam Hussein from power.
In 2000, the Project for the New American Century, an American neo-conservative think tank, published a report called Rebuilding America`s Defenses, in which they openly advocated for an American empire in the Middle East, focusing on removing the "threats" of Iraq and Iran.
Shortly after the US invasion of Iraq, prominent members of the Council on Foreign Relations had begun advocating the break-up of Iraq into at least three smaller states, using Yugoslavia as an example of how to achieve this.
In 2006, the Armed Force Journal published an article by retired Lieutenant-Colonel Ralph Peters, which called for the redrawing of the borders of the Middle East. He first advocated the breakup of Iraq, and that, "Saudi Arabia would suffer as great a dismantling as Pakistan," and that, "Iran, a state with madcap boundaries, would lose a great deal of territory to Unified Azerbaijan, Free Kurdistan, the Arab Shia State and Free Baluchistan, but would gain the provinces around Herat in today`s Afghanistan."
Describing Pakistan as "an unnatural state," he said, "Pakistan`s Northwest Frontier tribes would be reunited with their Afghan brethren," and that it "would also lose its Baluch territory to Free Baluchistan. The remaining "natural" Pakistan would lie entirely east of the Indus, except for a westward spur near Karachi." He even made up a helpful little list of "losers" and "winners" in this new great game: as in, who gains territory, and who loses territory. Among the losers are Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, the West Bank and Pakistan. And Peters made the startling statement that redrawing borders is often only achieved through war and violence, and that "one other dirty little secret from 5,000 years of history: Ethnic cleansing works."