Caveat Emptor: Social Science and U.S. National Security Strategy
In: Comparative strategy, Volume 33, Issue 2, p. 167-176
ISSN: 1521-0448
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In: Comparative strategy, Volume 33, Issue 2, p. 167-176
ISSN: 1521-0448
In: The US Army War College quarterly parameters, Volume 44, Issue 3, p. 142
ISSN: 0031-1723
In: The US Army War College quarterly parameters, Volume 44, Issue 4, p. 169
ISSN: 0031-1723
In: Parameters, Volume 42-43, Issue 4-1, p. 97-98
In: Parameters: journal of the US Army War College, Volume 39, Issue 3, p. 133-135
ISSN: 0031-1723
In: Parameters: the US Army War College quarterly, Volume 36, Issue 1
ISSN: 2158-2106
In: Parameters: journal of the US Army War College, Volume 36, Issue 1, p. 79-89
ISSN: 0031-1723
In: The Fletcher forum of world affairs, Volume 29, Issue 2, p. 83-101
ISSN: 1046-1868
Janeen Klinger revisits the UN peacekeeping mission to the Congo in the 1960s revealing some worrisome parallels with the U.S. mission in Iraq today. Adapted from the source document.
In: The Fletcher forum of world affairs, Volume 29, Issue 2, p. 83-102
ISSN: 1046-1868
In: Foreign affairs: an American quarterly review, Volume 76, Issue 1, p. 174
ISSN: 2327-7793
In: Environmental politics, Volume 3, Issue 2, p. 229-246
ISSN: 1743-8934
In: Defense analysis, Volume 8, Issue 1, p. 84-87
ISSN: 1470-3602
In: International studies notes of the International Studies Association, Volume 17, Issue 2, p. 39
ISSN: 0094-7768
This book examines how deterrence, coercion and modernization theory has informed U.S. policy, addressing why Former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's famous description of the Vietnam War as the "social scientist's war" is so accurate. By tracing the evolution of ties between social scientists and the government beginning in World War I and continuing through the Second World War and the early Cold War, the narrative highlights the role of institutions like the RAND Corporation, the Social Science Research Council and MIT's Center for International Studies that facilitate these ties while providing a home for the development of theory. The author compares and contrasts the ideas of Bernard Brodie, Herman Kahn, Albert Wohlstetter, Thomas Schelling, Gabriel Almond, Lucian Pye and Walt Rostow, among others, and offers a cautionary tale concerning the difficulties and problems encountered when applying social science theory to national security policy. -- Back cover
In: Comparative strategy, Volume 33, Issue 2, p. 167-176
ISSN: 0149-5933
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