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Dcc: Prot. Klaeujer
Dean
Don K. Price

Yours sincerely,

Carnegie Corporation to the program.

The benefit of this School for the generous support of the

I would like again to express appreciation on

the autumn.

It will be possible to forward it to you later during
return from a Government mission to Vietnam, but I hope
not be possible for him to complete it until after his
final report on the substance of this program. It will

Dr. Klaeujer will be preparing of course a

Policy Seminar under the direction of Dr. Henry Klaeujer.
Corporation to this School for support of the Defense
the final expenditures under the grant from the Carnegie

I am happy to enclose herewith a report on

Gentlemen:

New York, New York 10017
280 Fifth Avenue
Carnegie Corporation of New York

October 2, 1962

HARVARD UNIVERSITY
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Supplement to the 1960-1964 Defense Policy Seminar
Report (September, 1966)

Since September of 1964, the Harvard Defense Policy Seminar (now redesignated the Seminar on National Security Policy) has established a stable format in terms of purposes, student body, and program. The purposes remain threefold, to attract the ablest Harvard graduate students into research or actual operations in the national security field, to draw faculty members into a similar role, and to complement and stimulate ongoing research by members of the Seminar staff.

With regard to student body, the pattern achieved by 1963 and 1964 is now being maintained, drawing approximately equally from the Law School and from the Graduate Schools of Public Administration and of Arts and Sciences. While applicants from the Law School continue regularly to number more than 40, only about 15 of the best qualified of these are admitted. Similarly the applicants from the graduate schools tend either to have considerable personal experience in the defense field, or at least to have had a course in defense policy at their undergraduate college, in some cases taught by an alumnus of the Harvard seminar. This interaction, of third-year law student, professional military officer, and graduate student in political science or economics, is described by almost all participants as being extremely stimulating and valuable, and every effort will be made to retain the mix which has now been achieved.

The program of the Seminar will continue now to devote about one-third of the academic year to the process of defense policy

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formulation, and about two-thirds to substantive issues. This reflects
in part the resolution of, and greater comprehension of, organizational
questions within the Department of Defense itself, such that more time
can be devoted to the issues of policy which continue to emerge.

The quality of books and articles available is steadily improving,
so that the assembly of our syllabus has become a problem less of
finding appropriate readings, but rather of choosing the best out of
so many available. While works on the theoretical underpinnings of
the course can remain stable over time, the more topical readings are
constantly being reevaluated and replaced, by later editions or later
works.

Sessions of the Seminar continue to include full two-hour
sessions every week, and two-hour section meetings every other week.
Slightly more than half of the general sessions of the seminar will
involve talks by prominent and knowledgable guests in or out of
governmental service. The remainder of the sessions will be
conducted by Professor Kissinger, assisted by George Quester.

The substantive area to be discussed this year has been broken
down into general war preparation and strategy, alliance policy, and
sub-limited or guerilla war. This pattern, established essentially
in 1964, presumably will continue to serve as matrix for the program
of seminar for the foreseeable future.

The seminar was not offered in 1964-65, with Professor Kissinger's
Sabbatical Leave. Personnel changes since 1964 have seen Robert
Jervis and William Harris added to the staff of section leaders,
replacing Maury Feld and Donald Shoup. The program of separate

section meetings being continued makes the seminar one of the more
demanding course offerings at Harvard. Students still must take
an examination at the end of the fall semester, and submit a
year-length seminar paper in the spring.

The description of the course in the Harvard College this
year will be as follows:

Course Catalogue

Government 259. National Security Policy (Offered jointly
with the Graduate School of Public Administration and by
the Law School)

Full Course. M., 4-6. Professor H. Kissinger.

Strategy and policy-making for national security,
emphasizing both substance and governmental processes
by which it is made. The central theme is the
relationship of power to foreign policy. Principal
areas covered: fall term: strategic doctrine and
foreign policy, governmental institutions for
integrating national security policy, Department
of Defense organization, role of Congress and the
public in national security policy-making; spring
term: some case histories: NATO, Vietnam, arms control.

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Course Catalogue

BUDGET REQUEST 1964-65

SUB NO. 243 COURSE NO. Gov. 259 TITLE DEFENSE STUDIES PROGRAM TOTAL

ACCOUNT NO. 3388-2, 0001-1 PROF. HENRY A. KISSINGER ROOM 6 Div. Ave.

| Expense Classifications | BUDGETED 63-64 | EXPENDED 12/31/63 | BUDGET REQUEST 1964-65 |
|---|---|---|---|
| (01) Salaries C. A. - Permanent | | | |
| (02) Salaries C. A. - Term (Two or more years) | $ 3,600.00 | $ 3,600.00 | |
| (03) Salaries C. A. - Annual | $ 2,400.00 | $ 2,500.00 | |
| (04) Salaries C. A. - (Addit. salary paid to Corp. Appointment during term of appoint.) | | | |
| (05) Salaries & Wages - Harvard Student | $ 1,200.00 | | |
| (06) Sal & Wages - Regular (Reg. Univ. Payroll) | $ 6,300.00 | $ 2,435.08 | |
| (07) Sal & Wages - Casual (Green S & W Vouchers) | $ 2,200.00 | $ 560.00 | |
| (09) Retirement Allowance & Insurance | $ 885.00 | $ 449.88 | |
| (10) Pension Insurance & Soc. Security | $ 644.00 | $ 195.24 | |
| (12) Equipment | $ 500.00 | | |
| (13) Supplies (Printing & Stationery; keys, microfilm, photographing) | $ 500.00 | $ 35.09 | |
| (15) Telephone & Telegraph (Annual Rental & Toll charges) | $ 850.00 | $ 1,115.33 | |
| (16) Postage, Express, and Freight | $ 321.00 | $ 94.05 | |
| (17) Traveling, Surface (Includes hotels, meals, tips; train, auto, bus fares; taxis, limousines, miscellaneous, etc.) | $ 300.00 | | |
| (18) Subscriptions and Books | $ 700.00 | $ 101.70 | |
| (19) Binding | | | |
| (20) Publishing | | | |
| (22) Air Travel (Airplane Fare & Tax) | $ 400.00 | | |
| (25) Miscellaneous General Expenses (0001-1) | $ 3,000.00 | | |
| (54) Honoraria (Honorary fees for consultants) | $ 200.00 | $ 500.00 | |
| (56) Services Purchased (Extra-Univ. Steno, Edit., Typing Serv.; Typewriter Rental, Machine Service Contracts; all repairs on equip.) | $ 2,000.00 | $ 540.65 | |
| (65) Meetings & Conferences | $ 500.00 | | |
| (95) Research Overhead | $ 3,000.00 | | |
| | (0001-1) | | |
| | (0001-1) | | |
| **PLEASE RETAIN DUPLICATE COPY FOR YOUR RECORD** | **TOTAL** | **$23,500.00** | **$11,625.82** |
| | | **$26,500.00** | |

BUDGET REQUEST 1964-65

| Expense Classifications | BUDGETED 63-64 | EXPENDED 12/31/63 | BUDGET REQUEST 1964-65 |
|---|---|---|---|
| (01) Salaries C. A. - Permanent | | | |
| (02) Salaries C. A. - Term (Two or more years) | $ 3,600.00 | $ 3,600.00 | |
| (03) Salaries C. A. - Annual | $ 2,400.00 | $ 2,500.00 | |
| (04) Salaries C. A. - (Addit. salary paid to Corp. Appointment during term of appoint.) | | | |
| (05) Salaries & Wages - Harvard Student | $ 1,200.00 | | |
| (06) Sal. & Wages - Regular (Reg. Univ. Payroll) | $ 6,300.00 | $ 2,435.08 | |
| (07) Sal & Wages - Casual (Green S & W Vouchers) | $ 2,200.00 | $ 560.00 | |
| (09) Retirement Allowance & Insurance | $ 885.00 | $ 449.88 | |
| (10) Pension Insurance & Soc. Security | $ 644.00 | $ 195.24 | |
| (12) Equipment | $ 500.00 | | |
| (13) Supplies (Printing & Stationery; keys, microfilm, photographing) | $ 500.00 | $ 35.09 | |
| (15) Telephone & Telegraph (Annual Rental & Toll charges) | $ 850.00 | $ 1,115.33 | |
| (16) Postage, Express, and Freight | $ 321.00 | $ 94.05 | |
| (17) Traveling, Surface (Includes hotels, meals, tips; train, auto, bus fares; taxis, limousines, miscellaneous, etc.) | $ 300.00 | | |
| (18) Subscriptions and Books | $ 700.00 | $ 101.70 | |
| (19) Binding | | | |
| (20) Publishing | | | |
| (22) Air Travel (Airplane Fare & Tax) | $ 400.00 | | |
| (25) Miscellaneous General Expenses (0001-1) | $ 3,000.00 | | |
| (54) Honoraria (Honorary fees for consultants) | $ 200.00 | $ 866.65 | |
| (56) Services Purchased (Extra-Univ. Steno, Edit., Typing Serv.; Typewriter Rental, Machine Service Contracts; all repairs on equip.) | $ 2,000.00 | $ 540.65 | |
| (65) Meetings & Conferences (0001-1) | $ 500.00 | | |
| (95) Research Overhead (0001-1) | $ 3,000.00 | | |
| **PLEASE RETAIN DUPLICATE COPY FOR YOUR RECORD** | **$23,500.00** | **$11,625.82** | |

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(3) There has been as suggested, a trend toward teaching in smaller groups and a higher number of individual conference hours recorded. We would judge that this has implicated the student more closely--and professionally--in his work and increased the labor load of the assistants.

(4) There has simultaneously been a gradual but significant reapportionment of the students in terms of their graduate or professional field. As previous reports have stated, this shift has been somewhat away from the earlier Law School predominance (by means of more rigorous screening, since the applications tend to remain constant) and especially away from Business School applicants. A much higher proportion of our students are now Ph.D. candidates in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (many of whom will presumably go on to teach defense policy in other institutions) or candidates for the M.P.A. degree in the School of Public Administration. Gifted undergraduates are occasionally admitted. In terms of intellectual level and of fulfillment of purpose, we regard our present arrangement as a healthy and desirable improvement. We feel that we are now in a position to cultivate our teaching resources to the maximum and anticipate no major alterations in this regard.

Our attached enrollment tables will illustrate these observations.

Our meetings are, of course, enriched by the attendance of a variety of regular auditors possessing special competences in the security policy field.

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Staff personnel has undergone several changes from the past year. Dr. Morton Halperin has returned after a year's leave of absence, and George Quester and Donald Shoup have joined the staff replacing Douglas Bailey, Leslie Gelb and George Kelly.

The description of the course in the Harvard catalogue
is as follows.

The Defense Policy Seminar deals with strategy and policy-making for United States national security. A central theme of the Seminar is the relationship of force and foreign policy in an age of accelerating technology and revolutionary developments in military science and world politics. In the fall term special emphasis is given at the outset to the broader perspectives of the international system, followed by specific detailed examination of the concurrent demands of strategy and organization in the United States defense establishment. The policy process with relation to its history and evolution and the involvement of the various interested agencies is studied. In the spring term, various specific topics of strategic concern are treated, such as: NATO, local war, general war doctrine, and arms control.

DEFENSE STUDIES PROGRAM

Estimated Budget, 1961-1962

| | |
| :--- | ---: |
| Salaries CA Annual (03) | |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Morton Halperin | $2000 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;M. D. Feld | 3250 |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;F. G. Balch | 1000 |
| S & W Harvard Student (05) | 1000 |
| S & W regular (06) | 3600 |
| S & W Casual (07) | 2000 |
| Ret Allow & Insurance (09) | 830 |
| Pension Insurance & Soc Sec (10) | 330 |
| Equipment (12) | 500 |
| Supplies, Printing & Stationary (13) | 600 |
| Tel & Tel (15) | 850 |
| Postage Exp & Frt (16) | 300 |
| Travel other (17) | 300 |
| Subscriptions books (18) | 600 |
| Air Travel (22) | 400 |
| Miscellaneous (25) | 4740 |
| Honorarium (54) | 200 |
| Services purchased (56) | 2000 |
| Meetings and Conferences (65) | 500 |
| **TOTAL** | **$25000** |