CHRONOLOGICAL CAREER SUMMARY OF COLONEL WESLEY W. POSVAR

Attended public schools in Cleveland, Ohio. Graduated from the United States Military Academy, West Point, 1946. Bachelor of Science degree, standing 1 of 875.

Served six months in Cold Weather Test Detachment, Alaska, and two years at Air Prov-
ing Ground, Florida, as aircraft project officer and test pilot.

Attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar 1948-51, received the BA honors degree in Philosophy, Politics, Economics (later automatically awarded the MA). During this time performed extensive travel throughout Europe; flew with the Royal Air Force; spent some time as pilot in Berlin airlift.

Served in the Department of Social Sciences, United States Military Academy, 1951-54. Taught courses in American national government, modern European history, contemporary foreign governments, and principles of economics; directed the course in contemporary foreign governments with the rank of assistant professor. Served as Executive Secretary of the Student Conference on United States Affairs and as Secretary of the Rhodes Scholarship Committee.

Member of the Long Range Objectives and Programs Group, Directorate of Plans, Hq USAF, 1954-57. This committee of four officers developed a strategic concept and a series of force requirement evaluations which resulted in major alterations to United States Air Force programs.

As Professor and Head of the Department of Political Science at the USAF Academy since 1957, selected the personnel and directed the growth of the department from a planning cadre to its present strength of 24 faculty members. The courses developed and taught include four prescribed (required of all cadets) and six elective, covering the areas of American and comparative governments, political theory, international relations and organization, and defense policy. These courses are generally comparable to those in other institutions, except the Defense Policy Course, which is required of all seniors in sequence with international relations. The Defense Policy Course is a compilation of readings and connecting narrative, revised annually and published locally in four volumes. Presently chairman of a faculty committee for designing a new program for a major and a master's degree in international affairs; seven new political science courses are projected for this program.

Serves as Chairman of the Annual Air Force Academy Assembly (cosponsored by the American Assembly, involving student delegates from 70 widely representative schools), Chairman of the Graduate Scholarship Committee, and presently Chairman of the Division of Social Sciences. Served a term as president of the Rocky Mountain Social Science Association and of the International Studies Association (a new western organization). Besides editing Readings in Defense Policy, has prepared articles in this field, and delivered several at professional society meetings.

Appointed permanent professor, United States Air Force Academy, February 1960;
Military rank of colonel; command pilot. Married, 3 children. Age 36.

Law School of Harvard University

Cambridge 38, Mass.

9 October 1961

Dear Henry,

Please note the attached letter from
Colonel Wesley W. Posvar of the Air Force Academy
who was top man in his Class at West Point and who
is now a permanent professor and Head of the Depart-
ment of Political Science at the Academy. He wants
to explore the possibility of a Ph.D. at Harvard,
particularly in the area of Defense Policy.

This raises the question to which we have
thus far not known the answer.

I am very foggy in my understanding of the
administrative complexities of fields of study in
relation to graduate degrees; and clearly, if Posvar
is to come here, he should be working in the Depart-
ment of Government, preferably under you. Can we
arrange this so that we can make him a firm offer
when he comes to Harvard on Tuesday, 17 October?

This case may provide the occasion for an
academic breakthrough which will enable us to train
graduate students to carry the torch in the Defense
Policy field.

I am advising Posvar that it will be worth
his while to come here on the 17th. Some fast work
may be needed to have answers for him at that time.

WBL:has
enclosure

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
Director, Harvard Defense Studies Program
6 Divinity Avenue

LAW SCHOOL
MEMORANDUM

FROM Leach
To Kissinger

Please note underscored item on last page. Shouldn't we have Nordstrom come here --- perhaps to lecture on Procurement and Logistics? I have a feeling that we should keep close to the OSU people in pursuit of our common interest. I assume that those Mershon millions could transport him here without burden to our budget.

Cambridge 38, Mass.

21 February 1962

Dear Henry,

Status of the Defense Policy Seminar is taken
care of in accordance with our telephone conversation
on Tuesday, February 20. That is to say:

a. The Course will continue to be a third year Seminar in the Law School.

b. My name will appear in the same way that it did last year. The Course description will follow the text which accompanied your letter of February 8 to Russell Peck with the exception that my name will be included as previously. I enclose a copy of the Course description as it will appear.

Just to keep the record clear here is the
sequence of events.

1. I sent to Mort Halperin the Course description from the 1961-62 catalog and asked him to check it over with a view to keeping all of the catalogs uniform, and then to send the description to Russell Peck, Secretary of the Law School.

2. The Course description which you sent to Peck on February 8 gave the instructors as Associate Professor Henry A. Kissinger and Dr. Morton H. Halperin, with no mention of my name.

3. Associate Dean Casner asked me whether my name was intentionally omitted.

4. I replied to Casner by a memorandum of February 14 of which I enclose a copy.

5. This was dictated in the presence of Al Sacks to be sure that he and I understood one another. (He is the faculty member in charge of administrative problems in the third year.)

6. I next heard of this matter when you phoned me yesterday afternoon.

DEFENSE POLICY. The Defense Policy Seminar deals with strategy and policymaking for United States national security. 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. The Seminar thus divides its attention between two main categories: (1) Policy-making and Organization, and (2) Military Strategy and Foreign Policy. Emphasis is placed upon both the substance of national security policy and the governmental process by which this policy is made. Under "Policy-making and Organization," the Seminar is concerned with the following topics, among others: governmental institutions for integrating national policy, Department of Defense organization, the defense budgetary process, the role of Congress and the public in defense policy making, and the role of intelligence in national decision making. Under "Military Strategy and Foreign Policy," the list of topics explored includes: Strategic Doctrine and Foreign Policy, Local War, NATO Policy and Arms Control. (Associate Professor Henry A. Kissinger and Dr. Morton H. Halperin with Professor Leach. 2 hours a week, plus 2 hours additional in alternate weeks.)

February 28, 1962

Memorandum to Professor Leach

Subject: **Defense Policy Seminar**

In accordance with your most recent memorandum of
February 21, the seminar is being listed as a Law School
seminar. I have taken up with Russell Peck the adminis-
trative problems of seminar grade and third-year paper
requirement that we discussed on the telephone. The at-
tached slip sets out a footnote to be included in the
catalogue which resolves these problems in the manner
agreed on by us in our phone conversation.

Albert M. Sacks

cc: Associate Dean Casner

Mr. Peck

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger

Cambridge 38, Mass.

PERSONAL

27 March 1962

Dear Henry,

As you may imagine, there was some dis-
appointment when General Taylor and Senator Jackson
"konked out" on successive Wednesdays. This thing
is bound to happen in the future, as it has in the
past. I would suggest the following measures:

a. Include in the Application Form
something like this --

Guest Lecturers

The Seminar normally invites as
Guest Lecturers outstanding figures,
military and civilian, executive and
legislative, with current responsi-
bilities in defense policy. It is
inevitable that last minute cancel-
lations may occur. Students should
steel their minds against undue dis-
appointment when this happens.
Alternative lecturers will always be
arranged for.

b. Warn a couple of Seminar members -- perhaps the senior officers in the Seminar -- that they may be called upon on short notice to pinch-hit and should prepare themselves.

In past years these senior officers have
very frequently made excellent contributions to the
course, and they are quite frequently eager to do so.

WBL:has

12 June 1962

Dear Don,

In 1960 I was invited to UCLA
to discuss the possibilities of a Defense
Studies Program there. The initiative came
from Jeeb Halaby.

Take a look at what they have
done, copy enclosed! Are we a lesser breed?
Should Nate Pusey have a copy of this?

WBL:has
enclosure - UCLA Proposed Curriculum
National Defense Studies

Copy to Dr. Henry A. Kissinger

Dean Don Price
Littauer 121

C O P Y

March 13, 1962

PROPOSED CURRICULUM REVISION: NATIONAL DEFENSE STUDIES

The following series of new courses has been developed by
Rosecrance and DeWeerd.

139A. <u>American Defense Policy and Organization.</u> (2) I. Mr. Sallagar

A study of the institutional and policy framework for
decision making in the national defense field. This course may
be counted in either <u>Group II</u> or <u>Group VI</u>.

139B. <u>Defense Strategy in the Nuclear Age.</u> (2) II. Mr. Brodie

The problems of national defense strategy in an age of
nuclear weapons and missiles; appropriate objectives of military
policy, the role of strategic retaliatory forces, limited war,
civil defense, maintaining coalitions and related problems.

139C. <u>The Conduct of Modern War.</u> (3) I. Mr. DeWeerd

A study of World War II and the Korean War with special
emphasis on problems of coalitions of nations in planning and
operations.

139D. <u>Modern Defense Finance.</u> (2) II Mr. McKean

A study of the fiscal problems of research and develop-
ment, the procurement and maintenance of weapons systems and
forces for specified periods, criteria for choices among
alternatives. This course may be counted in either <u>Group II</u>
or <u>Group VI</u>.

Proposed Curriculum Revision: National Defense Studies

2.

264 Seminar on National Defense Problems. (3) The Staff
139A and 139C could be offered for the first time in
fall of 1962; 139B, spring of 1963; 139D, perhaps spring
of 1963 or 1964. 253A might best be held off for a
semester or a year until demand has been developed
through the bracket of upper division courses.

Related factors which might warrant consideration are:
(1) The possibility of applying for NDEA fellowships in
connection with the above program; (2) contacting the ROTC
units on the campus with the possibility of their tying
into the program.

June 18, 1962

139D. <u>Modern Defense Finance.</u> (2) II. Mr. McKean

A study of fiscal problems of research and development, the procurement and maintenance of weapons systems and forces for specified periods, criteria for choices among alternatives. This course may be counted in either <u>Group II</u> or <u>Group VI</u>.

264. <u>Seminar on National Defense Problems.</u> (3)

139A and 139C could be offered for the first time in fall of 1962; 139B, spring of 1963; 139D, perhaps spring of 1963 or 1964. 264 might best be held off for a semester or a year until demand has been developed through the bracket of upper division courses.

2 July 1962

President Nathan M. Pusey
Harvard College
Cambridge 38, Mass.

Dear Nate,

Re: *Defense Studies Program*

This grandchild of mine -- with which I have only
modest present connection, pursuant to a promise to Erwin
that I would "return to the law" -- is undernourished and
is not realizing its full potential. Henry Kissinger is
doing valiantly with the resources at his disposal, but much
more could and should be accomplished if the limiting factor
of finance were favorably resolved.

It was the original proposal, incorporated in a
memorandum to the Ford Foundation, that we would start with
a Seminar and then gradually extend the Program into a
spread of courses, graduate and undergraduate, which would
bring Defense Policy up to an approximation of the offered
instruction in Foreign Policy. We made a start on this in
the third and last year of the Ford money by adding an Ad-
vanced Seminar (which produced six articles for the GSPA's
annual collection on Public Policy) and History 139b, an
undergraduate course on Emergence of the United States as a
World Military Power. But then the Program shrank to the
original Seminar due to lack of resources in staff, which in
turn resulted from lack of funds. (The so-called Seminar,
by the way, is an academic oddity. It has a nominal member-
ship of about 50, chosen from twice that number of applicants;
but the normal attendance is between 75 and 125 -- which is
some evidence of student interest. We scare away the
dilletantes by requiring both an examination and a major
paper, which may be unique.)

As to what could be done I recite the following.
About two years ago I was invited to UCLA to discuss with a
faculty group the possibility of installing a Program there.
I heard no more of this until recently, when I received the
enclosed Curriculum Revision: National Defense Studies for
installation beginning in the fall of 1962. (Although the
Revision is designated as "Proposed", a later letter from the

2 July 1962

DEFENSE POLICY SEMINARS (OR EQUIVALENT) IN OTHER UNIVERSITIES

N.B. All of these came into existence after establishment of the Harvard Program. All follow the general format of the Harvard Seminar.

U. of Wisconsin. A seminar on the Harvard model, originally installed in the Law School (as was ours) under Associate Dean Carlisle P. Runge, now Assistant Secretary of Defense (Manpower, Personnel and Reserve). Runge's Deputy for Educational Affairs is Dr. Edward L. Katzenbach, a former Director of the Harvard Program.

Ohio State University. A Military Studies Program operating under a faculty committee and financed by the Mershon gift, of which some $7,000,000 in current value were allocated to this area of study and research. OSU conducted two intensive courses in Military History and Policy (3 weeks in late summer) for Army ROTC instructors; Leach gave the lectures on the history of Air Power; Col. Trevor N. Dupuy, a graduate of the Harvard Seminar, directed the courses. OSU now gives a Seminar on the Harvard model and offers a series of Mershon Scholarships and Fellowships for research in this field. OSU is presently considering the sponsorship and financing of an American Journal of National Defense -- which was part of our original proposal to Ford.

West Point. Under the direction of Col. George A. ("Abe") Lincoln, permanent professor and head of the Department of Social Sciences, a fourth-year course has been established on the Harvard model. Many Harvard materials are used. Several of the instructors in the course, of which there are several sections in accordance with West Point practice, are graduates of the Harvard Seminar who were sent here specifically to take pre-instructor training in Defense Policy and related subjects.

Air Force Academy. Same story as at West Point. Col. Wesley W. Posvar, who stood No. 1 in his class at West Point, holds the same status at the USAFA as Col. Lincoln at the USMA. Col. Posvar is taking a two-year sabbatical beginning September, 1962, to come to Harvard for a Ph.D. in Defense Policy, Foreign Policy and related matters.

George Washington University. A seminar on the Harvard model, originated by Dr. Timothy W. Stanley, a member of the first Harvard Seminar, then a Teaching Fellow on the Harvard Defense Studies Staff for two years. Students in this seminar include

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civil service personnel from Defense and State; the course is
held in the evening to accommodate these special students --
whose tuition, I believe, is paid by the government. Stanley,
after service in the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the
White House, has now been co-opted by the Council on Foreign
Relations as Director of a study on NATO -- a position similar to
that formerly held by Dr. Kissinger, out of which emerged his
book on Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy. A similar book will
be prepared by Stanley, who has already written (while at Harvard)
the standard work on Defense organization. The first fruit of
Stanley's work at the Council appears in The REPORTER, July 5,
1962, p. 19.

University of California at Los Angeles. Is establishing,
commencing in 1962 with full development in two years, a
Curriculum in National Defense Studies, comprising five courses.
Three of these courses constitute fractions of the Harvard
Seminar and Advanced Seminar; a fourth is substantially History
139b given at Harvard for one year by the Defense Studies Staff.
The fifth course is Modern Defense Finance which is treated in
the Harvard Seminar only by two sessions on the Defense Budget.

[Vanderbilt University. The former Associate Director of the Harvard Program, Dr. Harry H. Ransom, is now Associate Professor of Political Science with responsibility for instruction in Foreign Policy and Defense Policy. He proposes to establish a Harvard-type seminar, possibly in 1962, and has University approval. Ransom wrote, while at Harvard, Central Intelligence and the National Security, and has a second work two-thirds finished.]

[Wesleyan University. Dr. Franklin P. Balch, recently re-
signed as a Teaching Fellow in the Harvard Program, is becoming
Assistant Professor of Political Science and proposes, in due
course, to offer a seminar on the Harvard model. He has not yet
taken this up with University authorities.]

W. Barton Leach
Story Professor of Law

WBL:has

HARVARD UNIVERSITY
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

*Defense Studies Program*

2 DIVINITY AVE.
CAMBRIDGE 38, MASS.

Dear Henry,

For your consideration -- to
amend or reject. Possibly you may want,
as a third possibility, to comment upon it.

I am infinitely distressed at the
impression I seem to have created. I am
afraid I let my lawyers' habits dominate
my good sense. However, to indicate that
this method of expression is not limited to
yourself, or even to lawyers, you may wish to
recall our session last summer when Smithies
preceded me and I dismissed his remarks as
a "basketful of red herrings" -- in which,
by the way, Linc Gordon publicly concurred.

LAW SCHOOL
MEMORANDUM

FROM Leach
To Kissinger

A participant in the session yesterday said, "As I get it, Leach was obstetrician of this Program, and Kissinger pediatrician. Both very good, I would say."

Just for info.

Helen adds: "Being one of the scrub-nurses I can appreciate that."

LAW SCHOOL
MEMORANDUM

FROM Leach
To Kissinger

Suggest you write a note of congrat-
ulation to Capt. Arnold F. Schade,
USN (Navy Plans Branch, Office of
CNO) on his excellent article on
"The Merchant Marine and National
Security" Nav. Inst. Proc. Jan. '61.

LAW SCHOOL
MEMORANDUM

FROM Leach
To Kissinger

You really missed something at the
Lincoln's Inn Xmas dinner. Our course
was described as "On The Beach with
Pappy Leach."

Has it occurred to you to get Gates
as a lecturer? After a vacation, MM and
before his memory fades, he ought to be
willing and able to give us quite a talk
without the inhibitions usual to his
position. I'll bet you could get Jim
Douglas to recommend that he accept.

LAW SCHOOL
MEMORANDUM

FROM Leach
To Kissinger

I have a note from Harry indicating
that the Vanderbilt U. is after him as
a Prof. of Political Science and that he
feels he must take it if offered.

This strikes me as a tragedy for the
DSP. If you aim to do something here
in an attempt to make his present post
acceptable, I will certainly go to bat
with you either with Price or with
Pusey.