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Blind Oracles Blind Oracles Intellectuals and War from Kennan to Kissinger Bruce Kuklick PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINCETON AND OXFORD Copyright©2006byPrincetonUniversityPress PublishedbyPrincetonUniversityPress,41WilliamStreet, Princeton,NewJersey08540 IntheUnitedKingdom:PrincetonUniversityPress, 3MarketPlace,Woodstock,OxfordshireOX201SY AllRightsReserved Thirdprinting,andfirstpaperbackprinting,2007 PaperbackISBN-13:978-0-691-13387-4 TheLibraryofCongresshascatalogedtheclotheditionofthisbookasfollows Kuklick,Bruce,1941– Blindoracles:intellectualsandwarfrom KennantoKissinger/BruceKuklick p. cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN-10:0-691-12349-7(alk.paper) ISBN-13:978-0-691-12349-3(alk.paper) 1.UnitedStates—Foreignrelations—1945–1989—Decisionmaking. 2.Intellectuals—UnitedStates—Politicalactivity—History— 20thcentury.I.Title. JZ148.K852006 327.73—dc22 2005048754 BritishLibraryCataloging-in-PublicationDataisavailable ThisbookhasbeencomposedinSabon Printedonacid-freepaper.∞ press.princeton.edu PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 For Marc Trachtenberg and in Memory of Richard Neustadt Teachers and Friends So much for a blind obedience to a blundering oracle, throwing the stones over their heads behind them, and not seeing where they fell. Henry Thoreau, Walden Contents ListofIllustrations xi NoteonCitations xiii INTRODUCTION TheSocialRoleoftheManofKnowledge 1 CHAPTER1 ScientificManagementandWar,1910–1960 17 CHAPTER2 TheoristsofWar,1945–1953 37 CHAPTER3 RANDinOpposition,1946–1961 49 CHAPTER4 AccentedandUnaccentedRealism,1946–1961 72 CHAPTER5 RANDandtheKennedyAdministration,1961–1962 95 CHAPTER6 CubaandNassau,1962 110 CHAPTER7 IntellectualsinPower,1961–1966 128 CHAPTER8 TheKennedySchoolofGovernment,1964–1971 152 CHAPTER9 ThePentagonPapers 168 CHAPTER10 HenryKissinger 182 CHAPTER11 DiplomatsonForeignPolicy,1976–2001 204 Conclusion 223 AcknowledgmentsandMethodologicalNote 231 Index 235
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