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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.
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