Editing Jack Ryan (character) (section)

===First Ryan administration===
{{Infobox U.S. Cabinet
|align = center
|Name = First Ryan
|President = John Patrick Ryan
|President start = ''Debt of Honor''
|President end = ''The Bear and the Dragon''
|Vice President = Robert Jefferson Jackson
|Vice President start = ''The Bear and the Dragon''
|Vice President end = ''The Teeth of the Tiger''
|State = Scott Adler
|State start = ''Executive Orders''
|State end = ''The Bear and the Dragon''
|Treasury = George Winston
|Treasury start = ''Executive Orders''
|Treasury end = ''The Bear and the Dragon''
|Defense = Anthony Bretano
|Defense start = ''Executive Orders''
|Defense end = ''The Bear and the Dragon''
|Justice = Patrick Martin
|Justice start = ''Executive Orders''
|Justice end = ''The Bear and the Dragon''
|Chief of Staff = Arnold van Damm
|Chief of Staff start = ''Executive Orders''
|Chief of Staff end = ''The Bear and the Dragon''
|National Security = Dr. Benjamin Goodley
|National Security start = ''Executive Orders''
|National Security end = ''The Bear and the Dragon''
|Joint Chief = General Michael Moore
|Joint Chief start = ''Executive Orders''
|Joint Chief end = ''The Bear and the Dragon''
|CIA = Edward Foley
|CIA start = ''Executive Orders''
|CIA end = ''The Bear and the Dragon''
|FBI = Daniel E. Murray
|FBI start = ''Executive Orders''
|FBI end = ''The Bear and the Dragon''
}}

====''[[Executive Orders]]'' (July 01, 1996)====
The reluctant yet determined Ryan administration emerges as Ryan slowly rebuilds the government. He is faced with Kealty's political trickery, as the former vice president disputes his legitimacy as the nation's chief executive by publicly stating that he never actually resigned, when in fact a member of his staff had secretly taken the resignation letter from the office of the now-dead [[United States Secretary of State|Secretary of State]] and destroyed it. Initially the lone voice of opposition to Ryan's policies on live television, he later enlists disaffected CIA intelligence officials (affected by the [[reduction in force]] at the agency in favor of more field operatives) to procure classified information on Ryan from his time in the CIA. He then suborns [[NBC]] news anchor and fellow Ryan critic Tom Donner into ambushing him with questions about his CIA career in a televised interview. Donner's colleague John Plumber later realizes his mistake and publicly apologizes to President Ryan, while Kealty's challenge eventually fails in court.

Along the way, Ryan also has to deal with the dictator of the new United Islamic Republic (a coalition of [[Iran]] and [[Iraq]]), the [[Ayatollah]] Mahmoud Haji Daryaei. The ayatollah regards him as a weakling and seizes the opportunity to stage a multi-pronged attack on the country: a biological attack using a weaponized strain of the [[Ebola virus]], a kidnapping attempt on his youngest daughter Katie, and an assassination attempt on himself through an Iranian [[sleeper agent]] disguised as a [[United States Secret Service|Secret Service]] bodyguard; with the U.S. overwhelmed by a multitude of crises, he believes that he can invade [[Saudi Arabia]] with little military opposition from the U.S. While the attempt on Katie was swiftly averted by the FBI and the Secret Service, the Ebola epidemic causes Ryan to declare martial law and enforce a travel ban that becomes instrumental in killing the virus, since it cannot survive in the American environment due to its fragile nature. He later deploys what is left of the American military to assist Saudi and Kuwaiti forces in repelling the UIR military, which also becomes successful. The would-be assassin is later arrested on the spot by the FBI after attempting to kill President Ryan inside the [[Oval Office]].

=====Ryan Doctrine=====
At the end of ''Executive Orders'', Ryan, in the tradition of Presidents [[Monroe Doctrine|Monroe]], [[Truman Doctrine|Truman]], [[Carter Doctrine|Carter]] and [[Reagan Doctrine|Reagan]], issues a [[foreign policy doctrine]] which largely defines his administration's international perspective. The Ryan Doctrine states that the U.S. will no longer tolerate attacks on "our territory, our possessions, or our citizens," and will hold whoever orders such attacks accountable.

This statement comes soon after the Ebola attack on the U.S. ordered by Daryaei. Ryan announces the new doctrine on television, momentarily cutting away to show Daryaei and his UIR advisors being incinerated by laser-guided bombs launched from two [[Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk|F-117]]s, on Ryan's orders. Therefore, the Ryan doctrine supersedes the [[Executive order (United States)|executive order]] put in place by President [[Gerald Ford|Ford]], which forbids the assassination of foreign heads of state. Ryan, however, believes it is a more ethical alternative than [[total war]], since it punishes the person responsible for the attack instead of the people he rules.

Within the books, the Ryan doctrine is not officially invoked after Daryaei's death (although Ryan threatens to use it on the Chinese leadership in ''The Bear and the Dragon'', should anything happen to American citizens living in China as a consequence of the Siberian War).

====''[[The Bear and the Dragon]]'' (August 21, 2000)====
Ryan has completed Durling's term as president and has campaigned for the next election, which he wins. He retains most of his emergency [[United States Cabinet|Cabinet]] and has [[Robby Jackson]] as vice president. He has to deal with the attempted assassination of Golovko, who is now head of [[Foreign Intelligence Service (Russia)|Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service]] (formerly the KGB). This turns out to be an attempt to sow confusion in the Russian government because of China's designs to [[annexation|annex]] [[Eastern Siberia]], where [[geologist]]s had recently discovered a large amount of oil and gold. These events lead to the inclusion of Russia into NATO and the assistance of U.S. forces in the Sino-Russian conflict (although attacks on NATO members outside the Atlantic should not trigger Article V).

When the Chinese begin losing the war, U.S. forces target their strategic assets. A U.S. submarine sinks a Chinese [[ballistic missile submarine]], causing the [[Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China|Chinese Politburo]] to panic and increase the readiness of their 12 land-based [[Intercontinental ballistic missile|ICBM]]s. U.S. forces do not have the ability to destroy the silos, as they could only use deep-penetrating bombs, which had all been used to destroy Chinese bridges to disrupt the [[People's Liberation Army]]'s (PLA) logistical support. This causes the U.S. and Russia to send a joint [[Rainbow Six (novel)|RAINBOW]]-[[Spetsnaz]] team to destroy the silos. They destroy 11 of the 12 ICBMs, but one of them manages to launch and head towards [[Washington, DC]], and with Ryan taking a command initiative at an [[Aegis Combat System|Aegis]] missile cruiser, the ICBM is intercepted by [[Anti-ballistic missile|ABM]]s from the {{USS|Gettysburg|CG-64}}.

With the PLA's looming defeat in Siberia, which they were about to learn about via live [[Unmanned aerial vehicle|UAV]] broadcasts from the CIA through the Internet, student demonstrators in Beijing raid a Politburo meeting, causing reformist minister Fang Gan to take control and arrest the war's perpetrators, making peace negotiations with the U.S. and Russia, and beginning China's transition to democracy.

=====The Campus=====
Following this, Ryan apparently completes his term and refuses to run for a second elected term. Robby Jackson thus campaigns to become the first [[African American]] President, but he is assassinated by the [[Ku Klux Klan]] on a trip to the [[Southern United States|South]], enabling Kealty, his opponent, to become the next President by default. Before Ryan leaves office, he creates The Campus, a covert [[counter-terrorism]] and intelligence organization that [[Front company|fronts]] as Hendley Associates, a [[Trader (finance)|financial trading]] firm. He also writes 100 [[presidential pardon]]s for its members, with [[United States Attorney General|Attorney General]] Pat Martin's assistance.