April 25, 1958

Dear Mr. Brodie:

A mutual acquaintance has told me that you were extremely unhappy with me because I did not give you full credit in my book either for the help you had given me personally or for the influence of your thought on me. The information may well be wrong, but your good opinion means so much to me and I have admired your work for so long, that I would like to correct any misunderstanding that may have arisen.

I am sure the criticism that I did not give credit to your personal assistance must have been based on a misunderstanding by our acquaintance. As you may recall, we met only once rather hurriedly, and my recollection of the conversation is that it was conducted in very general terms about the broad approaches to our mutual concerns. On the other hand, I have always felt that your published writings belong to the very best in the field and I have been very much influenced by them. If I did not do sufficient justice to them, it was an oversight which I shall be glad to correct in the next edition of my book. Much of my early interest in the subject was stimulated by your writings, and my admiration for your work has continued.

I hope we may have a chance to meet and talk matters over when you come East. There are not so many of us with these concerns, and we should not use up our energies against each other.

With all good wishes,

Mr. Bernard Brodie
The RAND Corporation
1700 Main Street
Santa Monica, California

cc: Mr. George S. Franklin, Jr.

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6 September 1961

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Major General T. W. Dunn
Office of the Commandant
U.S. Army War College
Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania

Dear General Dunn:

I have your new letter of 30 August, and I want to
express my regret and dismay that your earlier letter
of August 2 did not in fact come to my attention.
It is true that I was in Europe at the time it arrived
here, but for some reason it failed to come to my
attention when I returned to my desk about a week ago.

I particularly regret this delay because I now feel
unable to accept your very kind invitation to take
part in a panel discussion with Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
on 21 November at the Army War College. I try always
to accept if at all possible an invitation from one
of the nation's war colleges, but in this case my
reason for declining is twofold.

One is that I am already committed to a lecture at the
National War College in the week following the date
you mention, and I have another commitment which will
bring me to Washington earlier in the autumn. For the
sake of getting on with my work, I must avoid too much
traveling. I would, however, try to suppress these
considerations if it were not for my second point,
which is that I do not think that Henry Kissinger and

which I do not think that Henry Kieiser and
considerations if it were not for my second boors,
traveling. I would, however, try to address these
sake of getting on with my work. I want avoid too much
prizing me to Washington earlier in the autumn. For the
you mention, and I have another commitment which will
National War College in the week following the date
One is that I am already committed to a figure at the
reason for deciding to twoold.

of the nation's war colleges, put in this case my
to accept it at all possible an invitation from one
on 31 November at the Vrady War College. I try whenever
bass in a benefit discussion with Dr. Henry V. Kieiser
maple to accept your very kind invitation to take
I particularly regret this delay because I now feel
attention when I returned to my desk about a week ago.

It is true that I was in Europe at the time it arrived
of August I did not in fact come to my attention.
asked my regret and dynamics that your earlier letter
I have your new letter of 30 August, and I want to

Dear General Dunn:

Caroline Barracks, Pennsylvania
U.S. Army War College
Office of the Commandant
Major General T. W. Dunn

9 September 1967

F-18348

1200 MAIN ST. • SANITA MONICA • CALIFORNIA

The R&AUD Corporation

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6 September 1961

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myself are at sufficient variance of view to make a
conversation between us particularly interesting to
others. Dr. Kissinger visited us here at RAND just
as I returned from my trip, and I had opportunity to
confirm the fact that at the present time he and I
have scarcely any disagreement on important issues.
I realize that you don't particularly want an adversary
for him in order to make a good debate, but I don't
doubt there should be some conspicuous divergence of
persuasion.

I am regretfully aware that I was obliged last summer
to decline also an earlier invitation of yours because
I was then embarking on my trip to Europe. I should
be most unhappy if I were to leave you with the
impression that I was anything but eager to assist,
in so far as I have the ability, in the work of the
Army War College -- but circumstances do intervene.

With best regards.

BB:jed

bcc: Henry A. Kissinger

pcc: Henry V. Kieasinger

BB:Jed

Bernard Brodie

With best regards.

Army War College -- put circumstances do intervene.
in so far as I have the ability, in the work of the
impression that I was anything but eager to assist,
be most unhappy if I were to leave you with the
I was then embarking on my trip to Europe. I should
to decline also an earlier invitation of yours because
I am respectfully aware that I was obliged last summer
I should be some considerable divergence of
to him in order to make a good debut, but I don't
I realise that you don't particularly want an adversary
have scarcely any dis Custom on important issues.
confirm the fact that at the present time he and I
as I returned from my trip, and I had opportunity to
others. Dr. Kieasinger visited me here at RAND just
conversation between us particularly interesting to
make it are at sufficient variance of view to make a
bemation.

doubt there should be some considerable divergence of
for him in order to make a good debut, but I don't
I realise that you don't particularly want an adversary
have scarcely any dis Custom on important issues.
confirm the fact that at the present time he and I
as I returned from my trip, and I had opportunity to
others. Dr. Kieasinger visited me here at RAND just
conversation between us particularly interesting to
make it are at sufficient variance of view to make a
bemation.

Major General T. W. Dunn

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11 January 1963

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Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
Director
Harvard Defense Studies Program
Harvard University
6 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge 38, Massachusetts

Dear Henry:

Thank you very much for your nice note of January 2nd. I enjoyed seeing you again, and I also enjoyed the meetings with the Fellows and with your students.

Since then I have read your article in the January issue of *Foreign Affairs*. I think it is superb. It happens also (and I trust this remark has some independence from the preceding one) that I agree with just about all of it.

I have just finished a fairly drastic revision of that paper of mine that I sent you last September entitled "A Critique of the Doctrine of Conventional War in Europe (CWE)." Its new title is "What Price Conventional Capabilities in Europe?" I will have a copy sent to you as soon as we are clear on this end whether it is going to be issued as a "P," to be published in *Foreign Affairs*, or whether we are going to make an RM out of it. It is administratively awkward, until we know that, to send out copies. Anyway, we ought to get a copy to you soon. I shall be glad to have your views, though I know already that you are sympathetic with the basic argument of the paper.

I do hope you can get in touch with me when you are in this area later this month. My wife and I would like to entertain

January 22, 1963

Dear Bernard:

I very much appreciated your letter and your
kind words about my article. I will be on the West
Coast to talk at UCLA the evening of the 27th, and
at the Los Angeles World Affairs Council at noon on
the 28th. I will be arriving the evening of the
26th with my wife.

My plan had been to spend the 27th relaxing
and sightseeing, since my wife has never been in
Los Angeles. I do not know how much time there
would be for us to meet. The only possibility I
could see would be the morning of the 28th, pro-
vided RAND could get me to downtown Los Angeles by
about 11:45 AM, or else after my talk at UCLA on
Sunday night. Perhaps you would like to leave word
for me at the Beverly Hilton.

With kind regards.

Henry V. Kieiserger

With kind regards.

for me at the Beverly Hilton.
Sunday nights. Perhaps you would like to leave word
about 11:42 AM, or else after my talk at UCLA on
Tuesday RVM could set me to downtown Los Angeles by
could see would be the morning of the 28th, bro-
would be for me to meet. The only possibility I
Los Angeles. I do not know how much time there
and sightseeing, since my wife has never been in
My brain had been to absorb the 21st relaxing
26th with my wife.

the 28th. I will be arriving the evening of the
at the Los Angeles World Affairs Council at noon on
Coast to talk at UCLA the evening of the 23rd, and
kind words about my article. I will be on the West
I very much appreciated your letter and your.

Dear Bernard:

Santa Monica, California
1100 Main Street
The RVM Corporation
Mr. Bernard Brodie

January 22, 1963

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25 January 1963

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Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
c/o The Beverly Hilton Hotel
Wilshire Boulevard
Beverly Hills, California

Dear Henry:

I have your letter of the 22nd, and am hastening to reply.

You do not tell me when you expect to arrive on "the evening of the 26th," and since that is only tomorrow, I suppose your dropping out to our house that evening is out of the question. Anyway, because of the three-hour time difference, people arriving from the East usually feel like going to bed relatively early.

Since it is an hour's drive from RAND to downtown Los Angeles, and you must be there at 11:45 a.m. on the morning of the 28th, getting you out to RAND that morning also seems like something too rushed to be worthwhile -- unless you would have time to come to RAND after your talk on that day.

Perhaps you and your wife would consider dropping in at our house for cocktails on Sunday afternoon? I have in mind that you have to give a talk that evening, and that your wife would like to do some sightseeing. At the same time, sightseeing should not leave out the Pacific Coast, where we live; in fact, there is almost nothing else to see.

Anyway, give me a ring at my home Saturday evening or Sunday morning to tell me your plans. My telephone number is GL 4-4632.

We would be very happy indeed to see you, but at the same time we do not wish to impose an inconvenience upon you. It

The RAND Corporation

10 May 1963

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Dear Henry:

Thanks for your note of the other day, but I assure you no
courage was required. RAND as a whole has by no means the
leaning you have been crediting to us. I did get a couple
of strong negative responses to my letter, which I shall
tell you about when next I see you. Meanwhile, my own
article is coming out in the next issue of *The Reporter* --
somewhat improved, I think, over the copy I sent you.
Today's news makes it look less pertinent than before, but
that can't be helped.

What I should like to take up with you now is the question
whether you could spend a few weeks of time with us here
in Santa Monica during the first half of the summer, beginning
perhaps with the third or fourth week in June. Some of us
in the Social Science division here are organizing a project
or series of projects having to do with the purposes and
functions of NATO, and with the consideration of various
alternatives to NATO. With a view to deriving both stimulus
and freshness of outlook we are seeking to bring together,
on a very informal basis, a small group of visiting scholars
who are knowledgeable about Western Europe and who can give
us the benefit of their insights.

I know you are usually very heavily committed, but I am
nevertheless hoping you can come. Please let us know as
soon as possible.

BB:mtm

May 28, 1963

Dear Bernard:

Your nice letter of May 10th reached me while I was
out of the country. I was somewhat hard and unfair to Rand
in my article which made it all the more gracious of you
to write as you did.

I have read your REPORTER article and like it very much
indeed. I do not know why it should be less pertinent than
before. The people you are criticizing have certainly not
changed their views.

I would love to be helpful on your NATO project.
However, three or four weeks early in the summer are some-
what difficult for me. I might manage four or five days
if that would help you. If you wanted a longer stretch of
time it would have to be later in the summer.

Warm regards.

and signed in his presence.

Dictated by Mr. Klaasinger

Henry A. Klaasinger

Warm regards,

Warm regards.

time it would have to be later in the summer.
It that would help you. It you wanted a longer stretch of
what difficult for me. I might manage four or five days
However, three or four weeks early in the summer are some-
I would love to be helpful on your WTO project.

changed their views.
Before. The people you are criticizing have certainly not
I do not know why it should be less pertinent than
I have read your REPORTER article and like it very much

to write as you did.
in my article which made it all the more fractions of you
out of the country. I was somewhat hard and unfair to Rand
Your nice letter of May 10th reached me while I was

Dear Bernard:

Santa Monica, California
1700 Main Street
The RAND Corporation
Mr. Bernard Brodie

May 28, 1963

in his absence.

Dictated and signed

Henry A. Klaeuser

Sincerely yours,

Warm regards,

much less lonely than I would have otherwise.

you at our conference and it made me feel

It was a great pleasure to see

a note.

that is agreeable to you, please drop me

and staying the rest of that week. It

was great arriving the evening of July 26th

for you for coming to RAND. I would

I can finally propose some dates

Dear Bernard:

June 11, 1963

The RAND Corporation

20 June 1963

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Dear Henry:

Thanks for your recent note. I have consulted with our new Department Head, Joe Goldsen, whom of course you know, and he agrees with me that the remainder of the work week following July 29th would be very satisfactory for your visit.

May I suggest that you think of favoring us with an informal briefing during the early part of your visit on the state of the NATO alliance, with special emphasis on problems for research. By "informal" I mean something that should not require any special preparation on your part, especially in view of your close and considerable familiarity with the subject.

Shall we make the travel arrangements here for your trip? A pre-paid ticket can be arranged. If you desire us to do that, please let us know whether you have any airline preferences; also, which hotel preference you have, if any, in this area.

It was good to see you at the recent conference, and I am glad I alleviated your feeling of loneliness. We must talk more about this when you arrive.

BB:mtm

June 26, 1963

Dear Bernard:

Thank you for your friendly note of June 20th. I
am planning to spend the week of July 29th with you. My
plan is to arrive the evening of July 29th. I will let
you know the exact time later.

Perhaps the best way of handling travel expenses
would be to reimburse me when I am at RAND. As for hotel
reservations, I will leave that up to you. I have no pre-
ference.

I will be happy to give an informal briefing on
the state of NATO early in my visit though I am afraid your
views and mine are practically identical. I may add some
political reflections to the strategic analysis.

I look forward to visiting RAND and even more to
having more of a chance to talk to you.

With kind regards.

July 25, 1963

Dear Bernard:

I trust you received my cable about the visit to RAND. From our correspondence, I had gathered the impression that there was a special NATO project going on at RAND in the preparation of which I might be useful. When it appeared in our conversation that I had obviously misunderstood, it did seem to me that there really would not be too much for me to do in four days on the West coast. As much as I would enjoy seeing you, I could not really justify taking four days off on this basis.

The appointment with the Governor has been set for Wednesday, August 7th at 2:30 p.m. at the Studio Apartment at Radio City Music Hall. It is located on 50th Street just East of 6th Avenue. You can enter through the Executive entrance. There is a bronze plaque to that effect. The Governor will, of course, reimburse you for your expenses in coming East.

Warm regards.

Henry V. Kießinger

Sincerely yours,

Warm regards.

coming East.
Governor will, of course, reimburse you for your expenses in
entrance. There is a promise blade to that effect. The
East of 6th Avenue. You can enter through the Executive
at Radio City Music Hall. It is located on 20th Street just
Wednesday, August 7th at 2:30 p.m. at the Studio Apartment
The appointment with the Governor has been set for
on this date.

seeing you. I could not really justify taking four days off
to do in four days on the West coast. As much as I would enjoy
did seem to me that there really would not be too much for me
in our conversation that I had obviously misunderstood, if
the preparation of which I might be useful. When it appeared
that there was a special WTO project going on at RVMD in
RVMD. From our correspondence, I had gathered the impression
I trust you received my cable about the visit to

Dear Bernard:

Santa Monica, California
1700 Main Street
The RVMD Corporation
Mr. Bernard Brodise

July 22, 1963

The RAND Corporation

90406

30 January 1964

Dear Henry:

I have recently agreed to a proposal by Editions STOCK of Paris to provide them by next June with an anthology, for translation into French, of American articles and other papers on strategy, to be introduced with a preface by me.

I feel that the articles (or chapters, or other papers) must:

(a) be good and lucid explanations, easily understood by Frenchmen in translation, of fundamental American views on major contemporary issues, and

(b) must include representative contributions from all the major creative strategic thinkers in America, as well as some of the minor ones.

I expect that requirements (a) and (b) can to a large extent be combined, though the effort to combine them may mean that Mr. X has to be represented by something other than the article he considers his very best. However, I am trying in the case of the leading persons to take into account the author's own views concerning the ranking in quality of his own publications.

I think the publication date of the articles is a secondary consideration, and is probably governed by requirement (a).

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger

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Because of the rather rapid change at least in emphasis of
certain ideas in the field, there will be few if any articles
more than two or three years old that will be of commanding
importance.

I should appreciate your telling me which of your own
articles -- or chapters or other cleared papers -- published
or otherwise distributed over the last two or three years
you consider your best. I suggest you mention two or three
anyway, with some ordering of preference. It may be that
I shall want to use parts of two papers as against the whole
of one, but in any case I hope to have you prominently
represented in terms of the total number of pages used.

If you happen also to think of certain articles or papers
by others which you consider exceptionally important and which
I might overlook, I should of course appreciate your mentioning
them too.

With best regards.

BB:mtm

Henry V. Klaasinger

Sincerely yours,

Best regards.

have had a chance to talk.

It has been much too long since we

Affairs, January 1962.

"Strain on the Alliance," Foreign

Defense," Foreign Affairs, July 1962.
"The Unresolved Problems of European

March 28, 1962.

"MTO's Nuclear Dilemma," The Reporter,

that I would suggest are in this order:

The articles of the last three years

from you.

It is always a pleasure to hear

Dear Bernard:

Santa Monica, California
1700 Main Street
The RWD Corporation
Mr. Bernard Brodie

February 19, 1964

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Dr. Henry A. Kissinger, Director
Harvard Defense Studies Program
Harvard University
6 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge 38, Massachusetts

Dear Henry:

You may recall that I wrote you some time ago soliciting
your advice about which article of yours to include in my
French symposium. You replied on September 19, 1964
suggesting any of three articles, of which I have selected
the second, "The Unsolved Problems of European Defense,"
published in _Foreign Affairs_ for July 1962. May I now
have your permission to use that article, which will be
included in a book to be edited by me and published by
EDITIONS STOCK of Paris?

I shall of course also write _Foreign Affairs_ for permission.
In anticipating their possible request for payment, I wonder
if I can tell them that you are willing to waive the author's
share that is often included in such a request? The reason
is simply that I have not been accorded special funds for
the purpose, and thus any payment of fees would have to come
out of the relatively small sum that has been granted me for
what has turned out to be a quite considerable amount of work.

I have noticed an article of yours being reprinted in _Le Monde_, beginning as I recall with the September 15 issue, but I believe that was a more recent article than the one I want to use.

I have a note from Joe Goldsen that you are planning to be
here on October 29-30. Most unfortunately, I shall be giving

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger

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a lecture at the National War College on the latter of those
two days, and will therefore miss you at that time. However,
I am looking forward to seeing you in Cambridge during my
visit there on the 15th.

You probably have received by now a copy of a recent "D"
of mine, on "Some Considerations Governing Escalation," which
I had sent to you in your capacity as a consultant. I look
forward to discussing with you some of the points presented
in that paper, but if you have a chance to send me some written
comments even before my visit to Cambridge, it would be most
useful at this time. I am, incidentally, instructed to re-
mind you of the special restrictions concerning the discussion
or circulation of "D's."

With best wishes,

BB:mtm

CENTER SEMINAR, OCTOBER 15, 1964

BERNARD BRODIE: "A NEW LOOK AT BATTLEFIELD RESTRAINTS IN A NUCLEAR AGE"

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

Was member of faculty that opened the National War College in 1946
and later member of its advisory Board

Formerly Professor of International Relations at Yale University

Has been consultant to U.S. Air War College and U.S. Army War College
and a lecturer at both, U.S. Naval War College and National
Defence College of Canada

Now: Senior Staff Member of the RAND Corporation

AUTHOR OF

A GUIDE TO NAVAL STRATEGY (in its 4th edition)

SEA POWER IN THE MACHINE AGE

THE ABSOLUTE WEAPON (co-author)

STRATEGY IN THE MISSILE AGE

The **RAND** Corporation

90406

4 November 1964

Dear Henry:

I seem not yet to have received from you the autobiographical sketch that I think I requested in one of my letters -- in reference to including your paper in that French volume. I want to write a paragraph or two about each of the authors who will be represented. Could you please have your secretary send me one of the mimeographed copies that I am sure you have available for this purpose?

Of course I knew I was going to miss you during your RAND visit, but that only slightly abates my regret. I hope for better luck next time, and I hope the next time will be soon. Anyway, it was good to see you again in Cambridge.

BB:mtm

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23 June 1965

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JUN 28 REC'D

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
Center for International Affairs
Harvard University
6 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

Dear Henry:

It is of course no secret to you that Max Ascoli gave me
your *Troubled Partnership* to review, no doubt with the
expectation that I would be able to do so in short order.
However, my trip to Europe and a more recent one to the
Sandia Corporation, plus an accumulation of prior commit-
ments that Max at the time did not know about have inevitably
delayed my work on your book.

I want you to know, however, that I am now working on it as
rapidly as I can -- certain RAND jobs do have a priority --
and that I hope to have the piece done before very long.
What I have already read in your book is _extremely_ good, and
it makes me altogether confident that the review I shall
finally be able to write will content you. So far as the
welfare of the book is concerned, a few weeks more or less
really do not matter. On the contrary, it undoubtedly helps
to have the reviews strung out in time rather than to have
flood followed by famine.

I am sending a copy of this letter to Max, so he will know
what the score is.

Incidentally, among the prior commitments was a long review-
article on Kaufmann's _The McNamara Strategy_, which will appear

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger

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in the next issue of *World Politics*; also a review of two books by General Beaufre for *Survival*. I am having sent to you a copy of each, though you should know that in the Kaufmann case I have made some additional changes which will show up only in the printed version. Fortunately, I shall be able to say very much nicer things about your book than I was able to say about these three.

In view of our close relations, I suppose I should not be reviewing your book at all; but in this area there are simply too few reviewers to choose from, and we all tend to know each other well. I faced the same problem, intensified, with Bill Kaufmann, and even, though to a much lesser degree, with Beaufre.

It was very good to see you again in Paris, and I do hope to have the pleasure repeated very soon.

With best regards,

BB:pd
cc: Mr. Max Ascoli
The Reporter
660 Madison Avenue
New York, New York

Henry A. Klaasen
Secretary to Dr.
Joan Blanchard

Sincerely yours,

at that time.
will bring your letter to his attention
officer the middle of next week and I
He is expected to return to the
June 33rd.

writing to acknowledge your letter of
In Dr. Klaasen's absence, I am

Dear Mr. Brodie:

California
Santa Monica
1300 Main Street
The RAND Corporation
Mr. Bernard Brodie

June 38, 1962

July 15, 1965

Dear Bernard:

Thank you for your nice letter of
June 23rd.

Needless to say I will be very
interested to see your review as you
are one of the very few people who I
feel understand what I am trying to say.

I read your reviews of Kaufmann
and Beaufre. I thought both of them
were excellent. The one on Kaufmann is
especially badly needed.

I do hope I will have the pleasure
of seeing you again soon.

With kind regards.