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World Security Network Foundation

"Networking a Safer World"

March 24, 2004

Dr. Henry Kissinger
President
Kissinger Associates
350 Park Avenue, 26th floor
New York, NY 10022

MAR 2 9 2004

Dear Henry:

Thank you for your letter of January 6, 2004. I hope that we will have a chance to meet soon in Europe on one of your next visits or in New York.

I am writing to share with you the progress of the World Security Network, which I founded and fund as a non-profit news service in New York, and seek your advice on advancing one of our central projects – "The Education for Tolerance" in the Islamic and Western worlds.

Our network, which seeks to increase public awareness of security threats and provide the international info-elite with innovative and practical suggestions on enhancing global security, has now grown to 155,000 members of the global info-elite who receive our weekly analytical newsletter. We have attracted leading foreign policy experts to our Advisory Board and analytical staff including Gen. Klaus Naumann, Bill Odom, Bob Hunter, Klaus Becher, Herbert Kemp and, more recently, Sergey Rogov, Director of the Russian Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies. You can find more information on our work at www.worldsecuritynetwork.com.

One of the central issues that we are currently looking to address is the Education for Hate in the Muslim world, particularly among children in the Palestinian territories.

To reduce misperceptions that lead to hatred and violence, we plan to undertake an international **"Education for Tolerance"** project aimed at enhancing the education for tolerance and peace in the Islamic and Western worlds. The project will study the tolerance content in education materials, media publications and family life in select Islamic and Western countries. The analysis will be aimed at exposing "best" and "worse examples" of education for tolerance and proposing practical means and guiding principles through which tolerance can be promoted effectively.

The Chrysler Building

405 Lexington Avenue - 9th Floor • New York, New York 10174, U.S.A.

+1 (212) 704-6118 tel • +1 (212) 704-6157 fax

info@worldsecuritynetwork.com • www.worldsecuritynetwork.com

The final result of the project will be "Tolerance Codes for Parents, Educators and the Media" and policy recommendations for governments, parliaments, international and non-governmental organizations in the Islamic and Western worlds. The policy recommendations will propose strategic and operational solutions for improving the education for and practice of tolerance and understanding between Islamic and Western societies as prerequisites for prevention of war and conflicts.

I enclose an overview of the project and would appreciate your advice on scholars in the field of educational policy or experts with proven track record in inter-cultural and inter-religious dialogue who we can attract to the project. I would also truly appreciate any suggestions you may have on partners and financial supporters of the project.

Our Vice President in New York, Rado Petkov, would be happy to follow-up with your staff on concrete ideas. He can be reached at our headquarters in the Chrysler Building (tel. 212-704-6118) and via email, rado@worldsecuritynetwork.com.

I look forward an opportunity to meet you again and wish you and Nancy- in the meantime- the very best and a warm and sunny spring time in New York!

Hubertus Hoffmann
President and Founder
World Security Network

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# 1. The World Security Network Foundation

The World Security Network Foundation (www.worldsecuritynetwork.com) is an independent nonprofit organization based in New York, which is "Networking a Safer World." It was founded by Dr. Hubertus Hoffman, a leading international expert on defense and foreign affairs and successful entrepreneur from Germany. The Foundation has filed an application for tax-exempt status under section 501(c)3 of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code on February 18, 2004.

The WSN Network is comprised of more than 120,000 members of the info-elite, including:

* 45,000 alumni and professors of elite universities in Europe and the U.S.

* 32,000 journalists in print, radio and TV

* 30,000 business executives, i.e. members of the Young Presidents Organization

* 10,000 foreign policy and defense experts

* Over 3,000 members and staff of parliaments including the European Parliament, the German Bundestag, the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.

Seventy percent of the Network members live in the U.S., twenty percent in Europe and ten percent in Asia, Africa and South America.

The **Advisory Board** of the World Security Network includes leading authorities from both sides of the Atlantic on international affairs and global security issues such as Gen. (Ret.) Klaus Naumann, the former Chairman of NATO's Military Committee, Robert Hunter, former U.S. Ambassador to NATO and senior advisor to Rand Corporation, Gen. (Ret.) William Odom, former Director of NSA, now Director of National Security at the Hudson Institute, Ronald Asmus, Senior Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund and former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Henning von Steuben, Correspondent of Bild newspaper in Germany and President of the Steuben Family Association and Prof. Christian Hacke, Director of the Institute for Political Science of the University of Bonn.

The **World Security Network staff** is led by experienced defense and foreign policy experts such as Gen. (Ret.) Dieter Farwick, Global Editor-in-Chief, former Director of the Federal Armed Forces Intelligence Office, Rado Petkov, Vice President U.S. and Director of the Southeast Europe Finance Consortium and Klaus Becher, Managing Partner of Knowledge & Analysis and former Senior Fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London.

The mission of the World Security Network is to raise awareness of trouble spots before conflicts and wars break out, to outline proposed solutions and to draw public and media attention to global security issues at an early stage.

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We aim to network the "strategic community" - politicians, journalists, academics and opinion-makers around the world - and to convey new creative ideas and policy recommendations to decision-makers in real time via the Internet. Our objective is also to educate the young elite, including media and business leaders, on issues of strategic importance to global security and international understanding.

The World Security Network activities fall within three major areas:

* Networking the info-elite by providing online platform to exchange views and analysis on current global events.

* Producing timely and insightful analysis on major global security threats and international developments. The Network publishes a weekly electronic newsletter on foreign policy and security issues which is distributed to more than 120,000 readers worldwide.

* Developing policy options on the pressing security problems of our time, such as establishing peace in the "Greater Middle East," and eliminating weapons-of-mass-destruction proliferation. The WSN Task Forces work closely with policy experts, government officials and parliamentarians to inform the decision-making process in the areas of international security and cooperation, provide early warning on possible crises, and suggest practical and imaginative solutions to existing international problems.

The World Security Network partners with leading media and policy research organizations worldwide to share and disseminate its policy analysis and recommendations. Among the Network's partners are the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, the EastWest Institute in New York, the Institute for Political Science of the University of Bonn and established media organizations such as CNN International, Newsweek, and Fox TV.

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## 2. Project on "Education for Tolerance"

Towards its goal of improving international understanding and cooperation, the World Security Network plans to undertake a new "Education for Tolerance" project aimed at enhancing the education for tolerance and peace in the Islamic and Western worlds. The project will review the practice of education for tolerance in select Islamic and Western countries, highlighting best and worst examples, and will prepare "Tolerance Codes" for parents, educators and the media.

Defining "tolerance" as the ability to understand and accept others and live by the values of nonviolent, open societies as opposed to totalitarian, authoritarian and conflict-prone ones, the project will study the tolerance content in education materials, media publications and family life. The analysis will be aimed at proposing practical means and guiding principles through which tolerance can be promoted effectively.

In the sphere of **Education**, the project will review the educational materials for children age 6 to 18, including textbooks, kinder garden and summer camps education materials in select Muslim and Western countries and will study the perceptions and attitudes they instill in children towards different cultures and religions.

In the sphere of **Media**, the project will study how the media in select Muslim and Western countries (including press, TV, radio and Internet) portrays representatives of other religions and cultures.

In the sphere of **Family**, the project will analyze how the family environment and values affect the perceptions of children as they grow and formulate their attitudes towards members of different cultures and religions.

The project's findings will be summarized in "Education for Tolerance Report" along with policy recommendations for governments, parliaments, international and non-governmental organizations in the Islamic and Western worlds. The policy recommendations will propose strategic and operational solutions for improving the education for and practice of tolerance and understanding between Islamic and Western societies as prerequisites for prevention of war and conflicts.

The World Security Network has already had extensive discussions with leading members of the European Parliament, the German Parliament, the U.K. parliament and with senior officials in the Israeli government, the Palestinian authority and the U.S. foreign-policy establishment. There is a wide support for this WSN initiative and commitment to review and discuss the Project's findings and policy recommendations.

The World Security Network will partner with several renowned policy institutes and think-tanks that have conducted extensive research in the field of education and inter-cultural tolerance. Such partners will include the Georg Eckert Institute for International

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Textbook Research in Braunschweig, Germany, the Foundation for Peace in Hague, the Netherlands and the Abraham Fund in New York.

The World Security Network already supports a similar initiative - the project "World of Difference," an exhibition to promote tolerance for children aged 3-5 organized by the Children Museums of Berlin and Manhattan in cooperation with the U.S. Anti Defamation League and the producers of Sesame Street

In the sphere of **Education**, the WSN Project will propose "Tolerance Code for Educators." Examples of materials teaching children hate will also be exposed. The objective of the Project's education policy recommendations will be to promote the most effective approaches to teaching children tolerance towards other cultures.

In the sphere of **Media**, the Project will propose the adoption of a voluntary "Tolerance Code for Journalists" that would require journalists and media professionals to abstain from portraying people and ideas from different cultures and religions in a way that can incite hatred. We will work closely with international media organizations and journalists associations across the world to elicit the support of their members in the drafting and implementing of such Media Tolerance Code.

In the sphere of **Family**, the Project will propose a "Tolerance Code for Parents" that will call for teaching children tolerance and understanding from an early age. The World Security Network will cooperate in this effort with the children museums in Berlin, Manhattan and other major cities, as well as with parent organizations and children entertainment producers. The objective of this cooperation will be to jointly develop a framework of positive experiences in interaction with other cultures that can enhance children's acceptance of different customs and social beliefs.

In the **first phase of the project**, the World Security Network will assemble a three-panel **Task Force** of leading education, media, and family experts. The Task Force will study the practice of tolerance in the education, media and family in select Muslim and Western countries. In particular, the Task Force will review the presentation of other cultures in children textbooks and educational materials and will examine the role of the media and the family in forming perceptions, attitudes and actions of children towards representatives of other societies.

The Task Force will draft a report with its findings in each country, including cases of **"education for hate" (worst practices)** and **"education for tolerance" (best practices)**. It will measure the "tolerance content" in school materials, media content and family education and will order the countries along a Tolerance Index. The three panels of the Task Force will prepare draft proposals for Tolerance Codes for Educators, Journalists, and Parents.

In the **second phase of the project**, the Task Force report will be reviewed by an International Advisory Committee comprised of senior government officials, education experts, and media executives from a representative sample of countries. The

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International Advisory Committee will critically examine the findings of the Task Force and will work with it to prepare policy options for improving the dialogue and understanding between the Islamic and Western worlds. Specific recommendations will be designed for governments and parliaments, the media, and relevant non-governmental and international organizations (e.g. UNESCO). The Tolerance Codes for Educators, Journalists and Parents will be finalized.

The final "Education for Tolerance Report" will be translated in major languages, printed and disseminated to policy makers, educational experts, opinion-leaders and the general public throughout the world. The report will be also presented in a multi-language, multi-media format on the WSN web site www.worldsecuritynetwork.com

In the third phase of the project, the policy recommendations of the report and the proposed Tolerance Codes for Educators, Journalists, and Parents will be presented to the European and other select parliaments in Europe, the U.S. Congress and Senate, and select parliaments and governments in the Islamic world. The Chairman of the Christian Democrats in the European Parliament, Prof. Dr. Hans-Gert Poettering and the Foreign Affairs Spokesman of the CDU/CSU in the German Parliament, Dr. Friedbert Pflüger, have already expressed interest in the project and following a number of meetings with WSN experts have addressed the issue of education for tolerance in the EU and German Parliaments.

The ultimate objective of the "Education for Tolerance Report" and its policy proposals will be to stimulate discussion and enhance the education for tolerance and mutual understanding as prerequisites for international cooperation and prevention of war and conflicts.

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From: Rado Petkov [rado@worldsecuritynetwork.com]

Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 3:32 PM

To: Jessee Incao

Cc: hubertushoffmann@gmx.de

Subject: RE: Dr. Hubertus visit to New York

Dear Jessica:

Dr. Hoffmann would be glad to meet with Dr. Kissinger on Monday, May 17th at 3pm in your office. Thank you very much for your assistance with arranging this meeting. You may contact me at the numbers below should need be.

Best regards,

Rado Petkov
Vice President
World Security Network
The Chrysler Building
405 Lexington Avenue - 9th Floor
New York, NY 10174
Tel: 212 706-6118
Cell: 646 331-1909

-----Original Message-----

From: "Jessee Incao" <jincao@kmaglobal.com>
To: "'Rado Petkov'" <rado@worldsecuritynetwork.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 11:08:12 -0400
Subject: RE: Dr. Hubertus visit to New York

> Dr. Kissinger is available to see Dr. Hoffmann on either the afternoon

> of Monday, May 17 or on Tuesday, May 18. Please let me know his

> preference.

> Best,

> Jessica P. Incao

> Office of Henry A. Kissinger

> Kissinger Associates, Inc.

> 350 Park Avenue, 26th Floor

> New York, NY 10022

> TF (212) 759-7919

> Fax (212) 759-0042

-----Original Message-----

> From: Rado Petkov [mailto:rado@worldsecuritynetwork.com]

> Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 11:54 AM

> To: jincao@kmaglobal.com

> Subject: Dr. Hubertus visit to New York

> Dear Jessica:

> Dr. Hubertus Hoffmann, the Founder and President of the World Security

> Network will be in New York from May 17 to May 20th and, following Dr.

> Kissinger's invitation, would like to meet with him.

> Could you please advise what would be a suitable time for Dr.

> Kissinger for such a meeting. Dr. Hoffmann would be delighted to host

> Dr. Kissineger for

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## LETTERS – Miscellaneous 1980’s

23 Jun 80

May the Lord enlighten our Leaders, who as true products of this affluent society have no
natural instinct any longer for threats & danger.

23 Sep 1982 (to Col. Shaw)

...consider that in my "retirement" I continue to be totally involved: reading advising, counseling - but always as a "missionary" who does not accept any fees whatever for spreading the "gospel" and rather contemptuous of the little professors and the former members of our military and civilian bureaucracy who sell their frequently rather passed knowledge like merchants.

This entirely self-chosen life-style of mine means, of course, that I have no staff or secretarial help and my personal correspondence is always months...behind schedule. Even here in my Swiss mountain retreat...my days are not leisurely but dedicated to voracious reading, political visitors and encounters, and some lecturing to rather select group of conservative Europeans.

...while everybody seems to stare at Lebanon, my worried attention is fixed on the Gulf; it is entirely possible that the Shiite explosive renaissance in Iran will overwhelm Iraq. This would immediately endanger Kuwait and ultimately all the hereditary...monarchies in the region, including Saudi Arabia.

...my time in the Alps is coming to an end soon and I shall once more be engulfed by the miserable busybodiness of Washington, dominated - like all capital cities - by more personal ambitions and opportunistic approaches (word?) than by long range thinking.

9 Nov 1982 (Letter to Adelman – complimenting him on a speech before the UN)

...The cream of our diplomatic crop have learned but *one* part of their art, namely to be diplomatic; nobody seems ever to have told them that in certain situations the *highest* form of diplomacy consists of being outright undiplomatic...

...The clever technicians now guiding the affairs of our bourgeois world have forgotten that a certain inner fire is an absolute necessity for those who are to *shape* reality (instead of merely adapting to it)...

...This, I am afraid, is the last epistle you will receive from me – unless you finally find your way to my ever-modest hut here in D.C. for an unhurried conversation in depth. I abhor written exchanges which are entirely inadequate means of communication.

15 Nov 1982 (to Ed Rowny)

...Observing all to closely, how so-called policy decisions are being made, I am more and more certain that the absolutely basic malady infecting all our doings is a terrifying lack of depth, an ineradicable trend to deal with matters of destiny at a hurried "working" breakfast or luncheon, a ½ hour appointment with some harried cabinet or sub-cabinet member; in short: under circumstances where no scenario discussed is ever played out like a planned chess game, where no advice given or taken is ever thoroughly probed as to its real potential consequences. People provide and accept "recipes" under the pressure of having to come with an idea while talking, everybody improvises...

...There most certainly is a time for improvisation and for action quick like lightening, but what you _might_ obtain from me, could only be the product of hours of conversation and _joint_ thinking through...

21 June 1983 (to President Nixon upon receipt of an inscribed book from him)

...In your quite especially instructive chapter "In the Arena" you state – with good reason – that excellence by itself is not leadership. Agreeing fully, I would like to provide a brief supplementary note

Excellence alone does not make the leader, but it is difficult – if not impossible from a civilized point of view – to conceive of truly great leaders who are not also men of excellence. And this in our modern, egalitarian democracies involves a near-insoluble dilemma. Excellence in Latin means to "stand out", i.e., to be head and shoulders above the others. Do our modern societies still permit such elitism? Will "the people" really – except in such crises as brought Churchill, de Gaulle, de Gaspiri, Adenauer to power – vote for those who are somehow "superior"? And also: Will the excellent, the superior ones, who consider it their mission/duty to serve at the top, feel obliged to adapt to the mediocre, the mass, the electorate in order to reach those very places where they can serve the Cause and actually bring their excellence to bear? Or will they – however noble the original intentions – leave part of their innermost soul, part of their excellence at every rung of the long ladder that leads to the summit? Shall they arrive there shallow and compromised, master tacticians, "flexible", perhaps still brilliant, but no longer "superior" to any other successful climber? Not only in the political arena, but even in the business world top positions are increasingly bestowed not on the most outstanding – hence more or less "unusual" – individuals but on the safe adaptable team worker with medium insights and short-range vision. In other words: Is Western Democracy on the road to becoming Mediocracy?

13 Feb 1984 (note to someone who visited him for the first time)

Our encounter at my home was very encouraging to me. Growing old now I am more eager than ever to discover representatives of the younger generation who seem able to carry the torch into that future which can no longer be shaped decisively by men of my age. Our friend...has described you as a man of excellence. The price of excellence, as you well know, is loneliness. My attached official letter to your Foundation...should prove to you that, nevertheless, one is never entirely alone and that, while every individual is but an island of resistance, these islands can be connected and formed into a dam, a front line against the Zeitgeist.

25 Feb 1984 (to high ranking person in Islamic Republic of Pakistan)

...We must see the reality of other countries, other societies, other civilizations in their terms, unencumbered by our own respective value systems; but to possess a value system of our own – “never to be betrayed” – is an unrenunciable precondition of our capability to make decisions for actual action.

It is particularly of note that your exhortation is not: “to look at reality objectively”. “Objective assessment” for modern man all too often simply means a narrow concern with tangible facts and columns of figures. Cartesian thinking...tends to concentrate on the quantifiable and calculable; it tends, in other words, to omit the imponderables and intangibles. To grasp “reality” one needs the psychological approach far beyond and above the merely logical one. After, however, we have this empathically taken inventory of reality, we must – so your teaching goes – be guided into action by values firmly believed. So you sternly reject modern relativism,...and that neutralism in ethics which, indeed, provides no basis whatever for determining long range policy objectives and implies, by definition, that zigging & zagging constitutes supreme and ultimate wisdom (and which, incidentally, leaves the initiative and forehand always to those who do believe – often fanatically – in THEIR value system.)

...My great fear has been and remains that in modern, egalitarian, more or less affluent, mass societies individuals of truly broad range – who could understand the outside world – are very very difficult to produce. The normal products of our educational systems (in “advanced” countries at any rate) are irretrievably bourgeois. They are not stupid, nor wicked, but “provincial” to the core. They do not know history – not even of their own countries – have only the vaguest sense of world geography, master no foreign languages and are, in effect, trained to be concerned primarily with facts and figures and the materialistic elements of life. When is to come that imaginativeness, that sensitivity, that comprehensive knowledge which would even permit them to conceive of the fact, for example, that “others” may be genuinely and totally different, that there are outside their own smug little nests – “true believers” (= fanatics) who feel they have to save the world by imposing their secular or religious totalitarianism on everybody else?

Assuming we do find the men and women who do possess the necessary insights – leaders like yourself for instance – there still stares us in the face the near-ineradicable

"U.S. Capabilities in the Battle for Mens' Minds" 1958

p.3 "But there derive from our own history and tradition, from the political, sociological and psychological pattern and climate of our specific American life and society definite limitations on our capability in two directions: First there are things we simply would never do – because we are what we are – even if we could; and second there are things which we might wish and even decide upon to do but which nevertheless we could never do successfully for the same reason, i.e. because we happen to be Americans and not Russians or Nazis or Chinese."

p.17 "Actually it is one of the basic misconceptions of the general public – and not only of the general public – that a primary objective of propaganda is to secure 'friendship' and sympathy in a general sense, so that 'unfriendly' remarks or attitudes – such as would be resented in the relationship between individuals – are, as a matter of course, considered proof of failing propaganda. Actually, the aim of propaganda is not to create in others benign sentiments, but to influence political opinion and thereby create certain favorable political reactions."

p.18 "In any event, lack of love for the rich, and, therefore, envied United States, a super power whose every action and omission is felt and anxiously observed in all corners of the world, could not be remedied by any amount of propaganda."

p.19 "It has been remarked over and over again, but bears repeating, that the Berlin Airlift and the naked fact of our fighting a war to save free South Korea, proved an incomparably greater propaganda asset, by demonstrating our resolve and firmness, than any paper or radio campaign."

p.19 "If the Arabs, who rightly or wrongly see Israel as their number one enemy, find that, in point of fact, the United States finances the very existence of that enemy, while the Soviets do not, they will not be moved into our camp by propaganda..."

p.20 "Propaganda is an auxiliary weapon which can very effectively supplement the military, economic, diplomatic weapons of a nation, but it cannot change basic factors which speak louder than words, and most certainly it is no substitute for power."

p.27 "Any militant ideology presupposes a mystical sense of certainty, a fanatical fervor, an inclination to think in abstract and esoteric terms, and moreover an intolerance and one-sidedness, all of which are alien to our national character. And if, perchance, an individual or a group were, nevertheless, to work out such an ideology, then the rigidity and dogmatism bound to go with it, would make it unacceptable to the nation at large and thus unusable for official propaganda purposes."

p.28 "The experience with the truly concise and inspirational slogan "Liberation," which fell flat and was widely criticized after the Hungarian events had revealed it to be at least 'premature,' has only added to this general skepticism and shown, moreover, that bold

propaganda is indeed inadvisable unless sustained in actual fact by an equally bold foreign and military policy."

p.54 "But we must learn to recognize the fact that the world around us is complex throughout and possessed by a mentality - even in the United Kingdom, Germany and Scandinavia, all relatively akin to our own ways - which is very different, indeed, from our own.... We must pay not only lip service to but actually believe in the basic psychological rule that to persuade one must be able to talk to others _in depth_ and _at length_ in their own language and in their own terms of reference."

p.58 "In fact the very ease and naturalness typically shown from the outset by Americans meeting with foreigners are cause for disillusionment in the long run. The absence of false fronts and the pleasant human touch found even in United States VIP's, civilian or military, are almost without exception the subject of delighted surprise by non-Americans who often find the rigidity and formality of their own stratified society somewhat exacting. But invariably there seems to come a moment when the other side, wanting to extend the conversation _beyond_ mere niceties and _beyond_ the business at hand, begins to be baffled by the lack of a genuine response. This lack of responsiveness, the somewhat uninspired way in which we discuss, if at all, ideas, ideologies, abstract principles, matters of faith and belief, raises an anxious question in the minds of many regarding the depth of our thinking, the degree of our understanding and the intensity of our faith. The very suspicion that we might be shallow and merely technicians of routine is so particularly shocking to our interlocutors because they know full well that their fate as well as ours depends overwhelmingly on the strength of _our_ resolve and on _our_ ability to grasp not only the political, military and economic but also psychological and spiritual situation of the world."

Radio Broadcast "Germany's Future" The Georgetown University Radio Forum
p.9 "There are no tricks; there is nothing whatsoever one can do to move other human beings except by the fire that is in our own souls."

Letter to Sec. Schlessinger 12/22/00
"You know the 'Kraemer Doctrine' of 'provocative weakness': U.S. military weakness will _provoke_ enemies to be aggressive, _because_ they do not have to fear U.S. retaliation, if they misbehave, while our friends (and 'neutrals' too) - unable to believe in our ability to protect them - would not resist any rogue state."

Letter to Mr. Kramish 12/23/02
"Standing on a speaker's dais, delivering a lecture or sermon, I remember everything I have ever known and a few things I have never known before."

"Never in my life have I taken one cent for any speech I happened to give. (You may remember my frequent remark: 'I am not a miserable salesman of intellectual wares but a missionary of and for absolute values.'"

Letter to Jane Brister March 23, 2001

"Life is not easy at any age and whoever keeps this firmly and fiercely in mind will not fall so helplessly into self pity and bitterness as so many elderly men and women happen to do."

Letter to the Foreign Policy Research Institute March 11, 2001

"Modern 'conservatives' also, very frequently, share with Marxists (Communists or Socialists) the conviction that man is a homo economicus, i.e. a being only beholden to and motivated by materialism. Modern man is inclined, indeed, to feel that only MATERIAL, i.e. quantifiable, factors are real and rational, while the SPIRITUAL - by its very nature - is something imponderable, non-rational, and therefore "unscientific"/illusionary, in short a human invention."

"Conservatives used to believe that Man does have a soul, and an ineradicable yearning for the metaphysical and transcendental (which DOES transcend the restricted world of facts and figures and the narrow limits of mere intellectualism)."...

"Only the medium brilliant can afford being overawed by their own or other people's brilliancy. The truly brilliant know that human brilliancy is nothing." Or "Brilliancy nowadays one can find at many places; reliability, strength of character, physical courage one has to search for with a magnifying glass. I happen to favor the rarity value."

Letter to Gen. Odom Sept. 25, 1999

"...a basic teaching of history: Aggressive fiery fanatics, intent on breaking the peace, cannot be deterred by 'clever diplomacy' and 'economic bribery' (e.g. North Korea) but only by a CREDIBLE threat of an impending use of raw force against them."

Letter to Sec. Schlessinger Sept. 18, 1999

"Innately Chamberlinesque, they can't fathom the extent of risk the wild-eyed true believers are willing - nay: eager - to take. Naively they think that ANYthing can be accomplished by cleverness and bribery. History, however, teaches that would be peace-breakers cannot be deterred by 'persuasion' (diplomacy) and 'financial incentives,' but only by a CREDIBLE threat of impending use against them of raw force."

Letter to Georgie Anne Geyer Nov. 11, 1998

"As a very great admirer of Eric Hoffer, I was particularly pleased and impressed by your warmhearted - and, of course, exceptionally well written - sketch of this most exceptionally insightful longshoreman. He towers over the miserable, mediocre, academic, 'intellectual' political scientists whose outpourings, more often than not, lack knowledge and grasp of reality."

### Letter to Mrs. Stroberg, Christmas 1997

"I believe in the power of the spiritual as **the** consoling element of our lives."

### Letter to Gen. William Knowlton December 27, 1997

"You know me as a relatively energetic person but I am, of course, profoundly depressed at times, by the decadent relativism, tiredness in willpower, and egotistic self-centeredness of modern man."

"As a historian I know full well that decadence is the normal price of a high civilization and of high living standards. The pervasive questioning of all values - esp. the widely preached contempt for such basic traditionalist concepts as Honor, Courage, Reliability, Dedication to one's nation rather than only to one's egocentric self-promotion - is a hallmark of 'modern' societies in N. America (Canada and U.S.), W. Europe (France, Italy, Germany, UK, Scandinavia, Benelux, etc.) Everywhere also those elites seem to be melting away who had **known** that men and women of excellence have to bear the burden of governing and of sacrificing (noblesse oblige) personal comfort and interests to the fulfillment of duties. The rampant egalitarian obsession destroys, furthermore - the bitterly needed respect for a hierarchical order where people **accept** being subject to higher authorities - students to teachers, officials to their superiors, employees to the managers of a business enterprise. Without such a pyramid of authority there will be utter disarray and chaos. I have coined the phrase: "Democracy is splendid, egalitarian democracy is deadly."

"Thinking of myself as a lonely fighter, I **do** tend to forget, at times, my very own conviction that underneath the shoulder shrugging negativism of modern people stirs an eternal soul and an intense yearning for faith in a transcending cause and in **absolute** and metaphysical values."

### Letter to Mrs. Balletti Dec. 25, 1997

"Also in modern egalitarian democracies: educational standards are being continuously lowered. Our (Lutheran) Pastor, for example, never learned Greek and is not able, therefore, to over read the New Testament in the original. Modern Diplomats, very frequently, barely know languages or international law, and so-called educated people have not even a rudimentary knowledge of geography or history; **although** knowledge of the **past** is the **only** way of being able to predict the **future**. I, for example, can only predict with near-certainty that a new dictatorship must rise in Russia, because it happens to be a law of **history** that, when chaos, disorder, uncertainty, unpredictability become pervasive, the nations so afflicted will yell for law and order, safety and security, surrendering their freedom enthusiastically to harsh tyrants. Another characteristic signet of decadence is the **self-doubt** and **relativism** seeping down from the 'intellectuals' to the masses. A relativism which does not recognize, ridicules even, any absolute values like reliability or honesty, means that, finally, no one even **tries** to be reliable because, after all, everything is only 'relative.' If no one can actually rely on anyone - 'knowing' that there **are no** firm ethical principles, that 'honor' is a meaningless concept, the basis of human peaceful coexistence, mutual trust and confidence has been destroyed.

men with whom I can discuss geo-strategy for hours...and in depth, a feat that can in no way be accomplished with the above mentioned two generals who, nevertheless, are entirely "typical"...Very few military can even grasp the basic implications of (SALT) *not* because they are uncouth and primitive, *but* because they are over-educated and have lost touch with the gruesomeness of the real world...

...(journalist) is for me an infinitely better partner in conversation than the overwhelming majority of so-called "military" men who are increasingly but civilians with a uniform thrown over their reluctant shoulders and anxiously striving for academic "respectability".

...But there *are* military men for whom I have undying respect, and General Haig is certainly one of them: courage, stamina, patriotism, self-reliance*. But also the *utmost* sensitivity for psychological & political intangibles. A *most* unusual combination: All too frequently the courageous men with the unshakeable resolve are over simplifiers and too crude, while the highly sensitive ones see and feel *so* much that they can't make the ... hard decisions required. Haig is near-unique in his broadly spectrumed excellence.

*It is one of my aphorisms that "only the self-reliant can be reliable".*

4 Jan '78 (letter) (I'm sure someone else said this first - Kraemer believed it)

"Courage, as you know, means to continue the battle, even if all the odds are against you."

## LETTERS – 1970's

### 21 March '79 (Ed Rowney)

...Yesterday morning...I was the (only) speaker on the Hill, where a dozen senators presided over by Sen. Dole were my audience. The group is an ad hoc affair, organized by Dole, to familiarize members with the problems surrounding SALT. A friend of ours, who had been present at all previous breakfasts of the series, told me, with some amazement, that I had held the senators' attention better than HK when he had addressed them. As a rule, I was told, or great legislators are so pressed for time that they take their leave from the table rather soon. They stayed with me for almost 2 hours, including those who had told Dole at the very beginning that they could only be present for a very short time. More promising than their remaining nailed to their seats is the fact that about half a dozen asked, whether they could see me privately...

You may remember from experience, how frequently my predictions come true, and I have to tell you once again that I do not believe that the SALT agreement it its *present* shape & form could possibly command the required 2/3 majority.

Apart from SALT, however, our situation is truly frightening. The Peace Treaty Egypt-Israel will certainly be signed, but the Camp David situation is absolutely bound to repeat itself: the paper formulae of intentional vagueness still leaves the decisive West Bank/E. Jerusalem issue completely unresolved, and Sadat *must* ask for more on that issue than Israel can conceivably concede. The courageous Egyptian is already endangered as it is, he would be a marked man, if in the coming 12 months of negotiations, he would *not* only obtain *full* autonomy for the West Bank but also the de-annexation of E Jerusalem by Israel. Those who believe otherwise do not understand reality. The oil problem will become *extremely* serious. I predict that Saudi Arabia will reduce, rather than increase, its heretofore "normal" annual production.

We have not many who see the global picture in its entirety. Haig, whom I see intermittently, and the Secretary of Energy who "interrogates" me regularly, are among the very, very few who "see it all".

*(responding to question about whether Kraemer had seen a particular item in NYT)*...that while I spend every day approx. 10 hours devouring information – my *marked* copies of the NYT are “uncut” and my folder system *not* kept up. A special...addition to my house will be constructed...to give me space for my files. Thus, even if I did by chance mark an item (in some of the many publications I read) on such a “Statement” I could not today extract it from veritable mountains of material...on shelves and on the floors of every room in the house. Sorry!

2 Sep '79 (Dr. Upton) – from Swiss chalet

The mountainscape around me is fabulous and breathtaking, my chalet a dream come true and I have every reason to thank God for the blessings Britta & I enjoy as private beings.

But I do suffer from political nightmares. Being as well informed as ever - read f.ex. 3 newspapers (English, French, German) every day for several hours. I cannot help noticing that the all-important power & influence of the US are deteriorating at ever increasing speed. The policies of our Allies - and not only in Europe - begin to be dictated by fear, fear that we can no longer protect them, the Mid East (oil), the southern African ores, or even our own backyard: the Caribbean. But people here (in *Switzerland*) are no less the victims of their own affluent societies, and this typically bourgeois preoccupation with personal matters, than we are: It is business - and internal politics - as usual on both sides of the Atlantic. Yet, I cannot simply stand by passively and gaze at the snow-capped peaks. I have seen very many people and shall still see many more - compatriots as well as Europeans - who share my apprehensions and are, at least, willing to ask the right questions as to what each of us could do to stem the... tide. Some important people have also stuck to their habit of phoning me (here on my mountain top!) for the usual consultation on international developments. I have refrained, though, from initiating any such trans-Atlantic conferences on my part. That is the vacation luxury I have granted to myself.

As you will note with a knowing smile, man does not change - whatever the environment I remain deeply involved and I am still waiting for indications of that detachment which allegedly comes with my (biological) age. If only I could inject my own intensity into leaders here and in Washington; these modern technicians in high places do not grasp the reality that never has anything been presented to nations on a silver platter and that great & difficult goals have never been attained without passion and a flame of true conviction. Mere high IQ's mean nothing, when the question is not just one of administering and manipulating but of governing and leading.

While the political shadows darken my horizons and cloud my days, Britta & I remain rather fit; a cable car ride the other day to a 3,200 meter (roughly 9,800 feet) summit gave us not the slightest trouble, although we stayed 4 hours at that altitude.

## 1 Dec '79 (Gen. Yarborough)

...I am no longer terribly enthusiastic about my own speeches: They are & remain mere *words* at a time when *action* is what is needed. A decade ago I was able to hope that my exhortating sermons could conceivably "awaken" people in time. Today there is no time left...Under prevailing circumstances I am conscience-bound to ask myself, whether my vigorous talks may not verge on exhibitionism, since in reality I am desperate rather than genuinely vigorous.

...I do agree, though, that if I appear at a Post at all, I should indeed spend, at least a day with the officer students. Then the element of superficiality inherent in a rush 2-hour performance will be somewhat reduced. Imagine: the Xeroxed itinerary for my ½ day at Bragg envisioned exactly 20 minutes for Q&A! I told my escort officer, a Lt. Col., at

## Misc. Notes for Speeches

1948 **Introduction** to a speech at a (Dept. of the Army) conference held in the Pentagon

1. The overestimation of Academic degrees

The overestimation of intelligence and brilliancy

The really important factor: personality which includes "character &
diligence"

2. The overestimation of top secret and secret information. Specific information in long range work much less important than basic conditions and main trends

3. I would be grateful, therefore, not to be considered either as a learned professor whose meager authority rests on some pleasant sounding academic titles nor as a rare receptacle of classified information. The degrees as well as the accumulation of facts from intelligence reports are only in the nature of tools and nothing more

But you may consider me as a careful and alive observer who is deeply convinced that he should communicate his observations to those who might find it useful. In answering you questions I shall not make any attempts at brilliancy but merely to describe the reality that is to the best of my knowledge and convictions. And whenever I don't know the answer, which may be the case more often that I should like, I shall say so and not try to cover up.

4. As a matter of fact, I feel that this is such a unique occasion for a mere Lt. to try to convey some of his ideas to so outstanding a group that I shall use every minute of this hour to merely give you unadorned facts and experiences. It so happens that I feel more a missionary than a scholar (or) a political scientist, and many things have been on my mind for a very long time so that I am only anxious now to report the truth as I see it.
For this very reason I will not try to please either, and should I see that some of my facts or interpretation of them does not find favour with this group I shall not try to withdraw by diplomatically worded statements, but it will be my endeavour instead to convince by additional arguments. The task of junior intelligence officers is in fact not to cautiously report what they feel will be easily accepted but to lay the facts before their superiors.
This is one of the reasons why character in intelligence work is at least as important as education and brains. I do hope, however, that if I can not convince you that I am right, you will still have the feeling that there is sincerity in my answers.

5. Of course, the understanding is that there shall be no limits whatever to the type of questions to be asked but I would like to point out that sometimes the task of intelligence is conceived of in rather narrow terms: I have often heard it said that facts, not guesswork, are important, but true as that is there is no such thing as a naked objective fact which will not assume its true importance by interpretation. The mere selection of some and omission of other facts is already in the nature of an interpreting process. The endeavour to relate only facts and nothing but facts frequently leads to fence riding: on the one hand....but on the other hand - which leaves the reader bewildered as to the true implications, as to the actual situations.

I would be particularly happy if you would subject me to questioning on these intangible factors and spiritual problems. For instance, the meaning of religion (not of the church) in present day Europe, or the survival of concepts of liberalism in the minds and souls of the intelligentsia. The interesting problem of how the Russians were psychologically able to convince the Prussian Generals.

## 6. The main problem: The Russian offensive

This too is much more a psychological problem than is generally admitted. Intelligence must advise Commanders on the psychology of the observed nations that means not only on what they are thinking and doing now, but on what they might think and do in the light of their past history and mental make up.

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## 1962

Our lives are on the whole so extraordinarily comfortable and secure that indeed it would require exceptional imaginativeness and inner vision beyond mere intellectual insight to feel, not only think that what we have might really be endangered.

Pessimism in general is un-American.

Specifically: We as bourgeois people cannot fathom the ruthlessness, the fanaticism the intensity of purpose. The missionary zeal and above all the willingness to make sacrifices of a revolutionary movement.

We are highly civilized, sober, well balanced, rational – naturally inclined to reasonable compromise. We do not believe in power pure and simple. We believe in World Public Opinion.

We appeal to reason not emotion. We are not accustomed to be challenged on our basic values.

Our propaganda apparatus is rather limited.

American women are the bearers of our culture. Advice:

* Use prerogative of a lady

* Educate your men so they will not say, "The Army got me."

* Don't domesticate your men.

We live in hard times – barbarians *have* won in history before.

1966

The price of excellence is absolute loneliness.

Success is not a criterion of quality.

Haughtiness - not before God - but in regard to other men is required

Intensity is demanded

We are a modern nation...stress facts and figures rather than the politico-psychological.

We have always been essentially more apolitical than others in the Western World.

We are beholden to Anglo-Saxon Pragmatism. Flexibility as a virtue unto itself...so
solve a problem on its merits. We do not look at consequences in Time or Space.

Will go under in the name of "Realism".

We *adapt* to reality rather than "shape" reality.

We are Bourgeois - do not understand the intensity of fanaticism, of revolutionaries, missionaries, visionaries.

We are rationalists, therefore disinclined to believe in importance of intangible factors.

We are deeply humanitarian and civilized; therefore battle, fight are not natural to us.

## Miscellaneous

### No date

*Comment he wrote years later regarding a lengthy memo he addressed to his superior explaining why he did not want to be paid a per diem.*

"This folder shows that I had to fight the bureaucracy for my choice of NOT being paid the usual per diem or full expenses when I went on official speaking engagements at Army and other installations. It also shows that I explained to the bureaucrats that as an educator or a *missionary* I did *not want* to be "paid".

I never, of course, accepted speaker's *fees*, whether I spoke to a private group or an official one (military). I *did* ask that I be sent air tickets if plane trips were involved and on military posts where I spoke the cost of quarters was either nil or nominal.

**13 Feb 84** (re: receipt of a "very generous - if unsolicited - honorarium")

Being a missionary of values spiritual rather than a salesman of intellectual wares, I have rejected for decades, as a matter of principle, any remuneration for my speaking & teaching activities.

Faced with the problem of applying the $500.00 to a deserving conservative cause, I have decided to endorse the check to your organization, because of your proven dedication and effectiveness in fighting the good fight. Moreover, according to my observation, we the old forget all too often that it is the young combatants - not the well ensconced by-name groups - which need concrete assistance.

**14 Dec 79** (closing to a letter - about a year after Kraemer retirement)

...I wish I could talk to you as in the olden days - at great length and laying myself open to your searching questions. There are no quickie analyses as there are no quickie solutions. I am still totally "informed" and passionately "involved". I have joined no think tank, no lobby, no industrial enterprise in order to be able to state - as I did the other day in a private working breakfast with 12 senators whom I enlightened against SALT - "I am beholden to no one, I have no axe to grind, no 'interests' to represent, no 'projects' to sell; from me you will get an objective diagnosis of reality". I live in fact on my pension, read 10 hours or more every day including weekends, give advice where it may be concretely useful, and lecture (without accepting any pay, because a missionary simply serves the cause) wherever I find a forum. Not a comfortable way of life, but a fighting form of existence, made highly intense by my desperate awareness of the danger to our very survival.

Letter - typical

15 Jun 1980

My very dear ....

Your letter of 14 Apr. was so exceptionally kind and spontaneous that it should have
received an earlier echo. Strangely enough, though, I am not only preoccupied – as I told
you in my last letter – but also occupied. A never-ending stream of political visitors from
at home and abroad and my unceasing reading, or rather, absorption of information,
which alone enables me to maintain that total up-to-dateness and encyclopedic
knowledge necessary for the speeches I give and the advice I am giving to all & sundry.
I had hoped you might possibly be in my audience, when I spoke on the Hill...

You sensed my depression most correctly, except that I feel no particular
"powerlessness" now that I am out of office. Even during my 30 years in the Pentagon I
never had "power" but only "influence". And there is surprisingly little difference
between that behind-the-scenes influence then and now. What is more aggravating is age
pure & simple; there is so much still to be done & so very little time left to do it. I cannot
assume that my near-miraculous youthfulness - 42 consecutive knee bends every evening
and a body without an ounce of overweight - can conceivable last for many more years.
The Lord will not make any exception for Mr. Kraemer, I am sure. My physical vigor
has also this unpleasant side-effect that, apart from being depressed, I have also retained
the capacity of a young & non-mellowed man for infinite rage. Never in history has a
great power simply played away its power; we have the potential of being a subject rather
than an object of history ... Nobody forced us to stand now naked before our enemies; we
disarmed ourselves very literally and also psychologically. For decades we were only
lacking in will power, today we lack power. If I were the President, my "style" would
certainly be extremely different from that of Mr. Carter, but as to action, genuine action?
Our 19 divisions (including the 3 Marine ones) verses 169 Soviet Divisions, their
millions of trained and ready Reserves versus our virtually non-existing weekend
reservists? We do not even have sufficient ammunition for any protracted combat in the
field, and if I were a Soviet General Staff officer, I could prove to my superiors on a
single sheet after how many days - days, not weeks - the US side would become unable
to feed the battle. Of course, one can bluff very much more effectively than our current
President, but the reality, the true reality of the frightening imbalance of military power
between ourselves and the USSR, does not give us much leeway even for bluffing. The
governing factor in the world has become FEAR: whatever the "sympathies" of the
nations in the non-Communist world, they cannot afford to stand p to Moscow, the
visibly and overwhelmingly mightier of the two contestants. The French, the West
Germans, the Saudis, the Mexicans seek accommodation with the Kremlin, because
we...can most obviously not protect them.

Yes, we still do have one chance: the current Soviet gerontocracy and a successor regime
of other old men - which I consider likely - will probably stick to their "minimum risk
strategy" which paid off so well, to subjugate only "vacuum areas" where the US is not

"present" - Ethiopia, S. Yemen, Afghanistan, Grenada, etc., etc. - and we may yet have 4 or 5 years for massive rearmament, economic-military mobilization, draft, B1. I do not have to spell it out for you of all people. But my irrepressible fear remains that the affluent, tired-in-willpower, egalitarian (= no genuine leaders) societies of the West will simply not use this period of grace. I am, of course,.....for Reagan, but he and the Bill Buckleys, Ford, Goldwater, etc. are actually Manchester liberals: Minimum interference of the government in the sphere of the individual, ergo no draft, no 10 cent fee on the gallon of gasoline, in short no sacrifices. The very idea of obtaining more & better men for the Armed Forces by paying better "salaries" is a sign of this bourgeois thinking, which cannot face harsh realities. Or rather: which has lost any imaginativeness. The other day I wrote on my NYT copy of Vance's Harvard commencement address these two sentences: "The little lawyer does not understand the role & function of force in history. The little bourgeois does not grasp the intensity of the Revolutionary willpower.

And therein lies my deepest anguish: As an historian, I cannot just nicely blame Mr. Vance or Mr. Carter, Mr. Brandt, Mr. Palme...They are not the illness, they are merely symptoms of illness. The Western establishments themselves are sick. Such is my analysis which leads to anxiety and fervor in my heart and soul, but as a believer I know that miracles _are_ possible, which my little human brain cannot conceive of. Faith however does not imply passive waiting for the God of History to present us our salvation in here and now on a silver platter. I have forgotten which Church father said: "Each of us may believe in miracles, but he among us who _relies_ on the miracle, is not worthy of its coming to pass".

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Fritz G. A. Kraemer

Talent Scout, Mentor and Geopolitical Advisor
to the U.S. Army Chief of Staff

Fritz G.A. Kraemer was born in Essen (Germany) on July 3, 1908.

He studied at the famous Arndt Gymnasium in Berlin, the London School of Economics and the Universities of Geneva and Frankfurt before earning a doctorate in jurisprudence at the University of Frankfurt in 1931 and a doctorate in Political Science at the University of Rome in 1934.

During most of the 30ths he was Senior Legal Advisor to the League of Nations at the League's Legal Institute in Rome. In 1933 he married his wife of 65 years, Britta Bjorkander, a Swedish citizen.

Dr. Kraemer escaped Hitler's Germany for America in 1939, but had to leave behind his wife and son. He became a U.S. citizen and joined the U.S. Army in April 1943 with two Ph.D. and one monocle as an infantrie-man in the 84th Infantrie Division ( the "Railsplittter") to fight for freedom in Europe on the American side.

As a gifted "talent scout" and teacher he discovered in 1943 young Henry Kissinger who joined his division, later in the 70th also Alexander Haig promoted to Military Assistent to than National Security Advisor Kissinger, and influenced their thinking. In a missorary-like role he "dicovered" and encouraged young peo-ple during all his long life.

Dr. Kraemer fought the Battle of the Bulge and in the battles of Rhur and Rhineland, earning a Battlefield Commission and a Bronze Star in the liberation of his former homeland. In 1945 he was reunited with this wife and son and returned

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to Washington DC in 1947. He left active duty in 1948 and retired from the Army Reserve in 1958 with the rank of a Lt. Colonel.

From the early 50th until 1978, when he retired from Civil Service, he served as Senior Civilian Advisor to the U.S. Army Chief of Staff in the Pentagon and influenced the Department of Defense in the Cold War als "éminence grise" combating "provocative weakness" and fighting for "peace through strength" as a "True Keeper of the Holy Flame".

A graduate of the U.S. National War College, he advised, taught and inspired generations of officers, officials, and private citizens throughout his life. He made a difference in the cause of freedom.

Dr. Fritz Kraemer died on September 8th, 2003 at the age of 95 in Washington D.C. and was buried with Full Military Honors in Arlington National Cemetery on October 8th close to the Pentagon honored by former Secretary of Defense James R. Schlesinger, his former students Dr. Henry Kissinger and Alexander Haig and more than 100 friends and relatives.

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On Elitism

I am calling for an elite on
which we can draw to fill
important positions not on-
ly in government, but also
in business, education, and
many other fields.

Fritz Kraemer calls for a mission to bear heavier burdens and make greater sacrifices for the cause.

I am calling for an elite on which we can draw, even in a democratic society, to fill important positions not only in government, but also in business, education, and many other fields. Changing my terminology, but not my meaning, I might simply say that, however democratic we might happen to be, we should always at least look for men and women of excellence when choosing people for key functions in the political, economic, academic, or even religious spheres.

While in our modern age - in the U.S. as well as in Europe - the word elite is suspect, everybody is calling for "excellence." But only lip service is being paid to this lofty concept. "Excellence" in Latin means to stand out, but we do not really look for genuinely outstanding people who are "taller" than the average. There is, on the contrary, a desire for sameness, for comfortable mediocrity, for conformity, which is inherently intolerant of any kind of superiority. This alone is a great obstacle to the selection of the non-mediocre.

Something else, however, is - in practice - even more important: those who have to pick others and who, by chance, are sincerely trying to find the best, the most "excellent," do not know any longer what criteria to apply in their search. In an age of facts and figures - in which, moreover, ethical values are no longer considered absolute but merely relative - men find it difficult to base their judgment regarding candidates for office, or for jobs, on intangible, non-quantifiable personality traits such as strength of character, fortitude, conscientiousness.

Not in theory, perhaps, but certainly in practice, modern society looks at labels and paper credentials rather than at substance. In the Civil Service, for example, it has become a custom to admit only Ph.D.s to the more important positions, although individuals who never had the time or money to acquire such a degree may

Look for men and women
of excellence!

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actually be infinitely better qualified. Due to the vicissitudes of my life, I obtained
two doctorates, and this "academic record" has unduly facilitated my government
career. In reality, of course, they do not show at all who I am and who I am not;
they are not even a sign of intellectual prowess, because they might well have
been bestowed by a mediocre faculty on an equally mediocre student. A double
Ph.D. may mean little more, in fact, than a nicely patented nobody.

We also accept a former Ambassador to Bangkok or Moscow as a prestigious
authority on Thailand or the Russia, even if his ever repeated anecdotes and sto-
ries of "personal experiences" reveal him as irretrievably superficial. And a pro-
fessor of Political Science from Harvard, Princeton, Yale, etc., will be quoted as a
certified expert almost regardless of the true quality of his writings and teachings.
Thus, looking for excellence has degenerated into asking for individuals with easi-
ly discernible license plates.

In the purely political field, especially in the selection and election of candida-
tes, there is an additional problem for the voting public. The speeches and other
utterances of candidates are ghost-written and carefully concocted, the real per-
sonalities are hidden behind a veil of pure imagery; there is little visible spontan-
eity and much staging. Reviewing the Democratic and Republican presidential
candidates, for example, I would not dare to say, with any degree of certainty,
what and who these men really are and what convictions, if any, they hold in their
heart of hearts; although - in contrast to the general public, which cannot remem-
ber even the recent past.

We are facing a very real growing danger that the American people will get so
bored, or apathetic, or cynical and disgusted with the artificiality and hollowness
of "politics" that they will simply refuse to participate! In our 1992 national elec-
tion only 37.3% of the eligible voters actually took the trouble of going to the polls,
which means that almost 2/3 of the electorate did not find it worth their while to
cast a ballot. If the normal, "legitimate" but dehydrated, politicians can no longer
move or attract people, they are leaving a void, an ever more yawning gap which
will be filled, inevitably, by demagogues speaking fiery words with shining eyes;
and the masses - feeling empty, unled and disoriented - will turn to the false pro-
phets with their seemingly inspired and therefore rather inspiring messages.

My fear regarding the inner corrosion of the very "successful" politician
(President, Senator, Representative, Governor, etc.) is not, by the way, that during

*Modern society's looks at*
*label and paper credentials*
*rather than at sub-stance.*
*In reality, they do not show*
*at all who I am and who*
*I am not.*

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My fear regarding the in-
ner corrosion of the very
"successful" politician is
not, by the way, that dur-
ing a long career of com-
promising and sailing with
the wind he will lose his
aggressiveness, cle-verness
or even the capability to
command, but that he will
leave part of his soul on
every rung of the lad-sder
leading him to the top.

a long career of compromising and sailing with the wind he will lose his aggres-
siveness, cleverness or even the capability to command, but that - to quote a for-
mula I have used for many year now - he will leave part of his soul on every rung
of the ladder leading him to the top. The harsh school of the upward struggle may,
in fact, have made him a master tactician but the Holy Fire, the inner passion, the
vision has gone, had to go, in a world of make-believe and ghost writers, of con-
tinuous accommodation to public opinion polls, of dependence on such non-events
as "caucuses" in Iowa in which only a tiny fraction of the voters take part anyway.
It seems revealing to me that the word "emotional" has assumed a pejorative mea-
ning, as if deep convictions could actually be held in some nicely abstract, coolly
detached fashion, "untainted" by very strong feelings of the individual holding
such convictions.

My ultimate reason, however, for postulating the necessity of an elite is the
observation that in control everyday reality the ideal of an egalitarian society has
quite simply led to a loss of quality. Since, for example, virtually everyone now is
going to high school, the demands made on high school students had to be lowe-
red, inevitably, to such an extent that the business world as well as colleges com-
plain bitterly about the number of high school graduates needing remedial cour-
eses in reading and orthography, to say nothing of history and geography. And
since college education has become a mass enterprise, very many can obtain an
academic degree today who formerly would have had to be satisfied with a high
school certificate. I do admit that the "classical" high school curriculum of my youth
- nine years of Latin (every day of the six-day week) and six years of Greek (every
day of the six-day week), plus one modern foreign language in addition to mathe-
matics, physics, chemistry, geography and history - is no longer feasible, although
it did accustom me and my classmates to become acquainted, very early in life,
with subjects (Greek, Latin) of no visible "practical" value which, however, broaden-
ed my vision greatly and opened windows to distant landscapes.

The harsh school of the upward struggle may, in fact,
have made him a master tactician but the Holy Fire,
the inner passion, the vision has gone, had to go.

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Yet, even today, one could certainly demand that a high school student taking Spanish or French as his one foreign language has to learn the grammar of that language, instead of acquiring merely a basic and primitive vocabulary. One could likewise demand of a college graduate in Political Science a knowledge of world history in general outlines and an awareness of internal developments of a few key countries in some depth, and such a graduate should also be expected to have a very precise idea of where on the map Indonesia, Nigeria, Honduras, or Bolivia are located. As regards professional diplomats, would it be unjust to ask that henceforth they must be well grounded in international law and demonstrate familiarity with global political and economic trends? One might even insist that a professor of Comparative Government be well acquainted with the actual constitutions of perhaps a dozen important nations and that a priest or pastor have some knowledge of Hebrew and Greek enabling him to look, an occasion, at the original text of the Bible. In other words, one could, without becoming undemocratic, raise the level of requirements for students as well as for teachers and professors, etc., and thus eliminate the very large and clogging numbers of those who are "making it" through the educational system only because that system is geared to mass production rather than to the development of any personal excellence, to some specialties rather than to the acquisition of a broader understanding of even their own general field of endeavor.

Personally, I do not consider a formal education a necessary pre-condition for genuine achievement. Eric Hoffer, a bona fide dockyard worker until his 65th year who never went to college, had a far deeper grasp of historico-political reality than most learned professors.

His book, "The True Believer," shows an extraordinary breadth of knowledge and a depth of insight into history, past and current, which I for one can only admire and envy. Hoffer's dictum: "Where the yearning for freedom destroys order, the

> In practice we do not know any longer the criteria to apply in the search of "Excellence", difficult regarding intangible, non-quantifiable personality traits such as strength of character, fortitude, conscientiousness.

> I do not consider a formal education a necessary pre-condition for genuine achievement.

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Seek out individuals,
guide, help, assist,
encourage them !

yearning for order will destroy freedom," is a splendid, pithy formulation of a basic
truth that very few of the learned ones could have produced. If I suggest a more
demanding educational system aiming at "excellence" rather than mass delivery
of graduates to society, it is only because I am aware of the fact that our society
simply will not talentscout for the untutored genius who cannot present some
paper credentials, some formal card of admission. All I can realistically propose,
therefore, is to make that plastic card more substantial and more intrinsically
meaningful.

(I have fewer misgivings concerning our excellence in the natural, i.e., exact sciences [mathematics, atomic physics, electronics, etc.] than in the field of political and social "sciences" which are by no means exact and where superficiality, lack of knowledge, even fakery cannot so easily be found out and shown up. A political columnist, a political candidate or office-holder, a professor of political science may have a long record of wrong predictions and of faulty analyses and of eloquent but ill informed views, especially an foreign affairs, and he may very well survive as a respected oracle. An engineer on the other hand, whose design for a bridge is faulty, a mathematician or physicist whose equations do not equate will soon lose prestige and professional standing.)

That there is an objective contradiction between "excellence" and mass educa-
tion is either not understood or, for ideological reasons, not admitted. The facts,
however, are very clear. I once asked a young professor Kissinger (Political
Science): "How many especially gifted students have you discovered this year?"
His answer: "There are about 500 students in the class I teach and 120 in the
Seminar I conduct; it is impossible to seek out individuals." It is, indeed, an "impos-
sible" situation since one cannot effectively guide, help, assist, encourage whole
assemblages of people to achieve superior qualities of mind and character; one
has to pay attention to individuals.

Pay attention to individuals?

Modern educators, whatever they may loudly proclaim, actually cling to a child-
like faith that, with the right method of instruction you can make virtually any "nor-
mal" group of students quite proficient in practically any subject. I remember a
spirited discussion with faculty members of a renowned institute of higher learning
where the professors heatedly bore down on a chance remark of mine that my

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own "gifts" were strictly limited to the so-called humanities, while from high school
days on I had proven strikingly inept in natural sciences. They insisted that "eve-
rybody," myself included, could do very well indeed in mathematics, physics, etc.,
if taught in the proper fashion. This professional belief assumes implicitly that, in
the ultimate analysis, people are not too different in their natural giftedness and
that it is all lastly a question of presenting a subject to them in a paedagogically
"correct" manner.

This is absurd.

A young Italian peasant with a splendid natural voice who cannot even read music may be trained at a conservatory and, finally, become a leading opera singer; but ten years or more at that same conservatory will not make a singer of him who did not have such natural (if untrained) voice in the first place. Similarly, you can teach historical facts but you cannot teach a sense of history to those who do not possess a natural inner musicality for history. Nor can you teach psychological understanding of people and peoples to those not endowed with vibrating antennae for intangibles and imponderables that are outside and beyond the facts and figures zone.

An individual with an innate potential for excellence in foreign or military affairs may be totally ungifted in business. A business genius, on the other hand, may have no inner affinity whatever for the peculiar realities prevailing in international relations and in matters of national Defense. To recognize that talents are very unjustly distributed among human beings (and that the natural aptitudes of individuals differ from person to person) is, perhaps, anti-egalitarian, but it is certainly realistic.

> We can teach our own children that "success" as such is by no means a hallmark of excellence and that they do not have to prove their worth by collecting high grades and impressive degrees at college or by climbing to prestigious positions later in life.

> We can teach our children that, while everyone has to earn a living, material riches are a rather minor reward to strive for. A life of contemplation, active missionary work for a cause infinitely more desirable than an existence earnestly geared to the making of money.

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> How can young men and women even strive for excellence if the huge and soulless education-manufacturing plants make the students feel that all that is expected of them is an effort to obtain credit points, work more or less diligently for an upcoming test and, finally, get some degree (preferably from a big-name institution).

How can young men and women even strive for excellence - be it only within the parameters of their own special giftedness - if the huge and soulless education-manufacturing plants make the students feel that all that is expected of them is an effort to obtain credit points, work more or less diligently for an upcoming test and, finally, get some degree (preferably from a big-name institution). In fact, in such an atmosphere an originally independent and highly endowed personality will be discouraged rather than permitted to develop in depth, because pro-fundity and higher ethical aspirations would simply not fit the purpose of that costly education: to achieve visible, practical results.

(I have not yet read a recent book by Allan Bloom, professor of political philosophy at the University of Chicago, "The Closing of the American Mind," subtitle, "How Higher Education has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students," but the "impoverishment of the soul" part does sound quite remarkable coming from a man who has actually observed the system from within for decades.)

It is entirely possible that no preaching on my part, or on the part of anybody else, will change the existing educational situation and that high schools and colleges will continue to be swamped and smothered by having to serve too many.

**Yet, there are two things each of us can do in his own circle of family and friends.**

**FIRST.** We can teach our own children that "success" as such is by no means a hallmark of excellence and that they do not have to prove their worth by collecting high grades and impressive degrees at college or by climbing to prestigious positions later in life. When my son went off to college, I warned him that he might get straight "As" simply by writing papers cleverly reflecting a professor's pet views, while he might get "Cs" (and less) as a result of expressing original and well-conceived but "unpopular" ideas. I assured him that he would never have to bend and bow, and sacrifice his convictions and his soul out of a feeling that his father would expect him to "show something," i.e., a fine-looking paper record, for money spent on the son's education. "If your academic record is far less than splendid, even if you fail," I told him, "you will always be received by your father with pride and approval, provided you can answer 'Yes' to two questions: 'Did you work hard? Did you stand up for your convictions?'" I have reasons to believe that

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it would be most helpful, especially to the more promising of the younger genera-
tion, if their parents (grandparents, uncles, etc.) would let them start out in the
world with no doubt whatever that character and self-discipline, rather than
showy "report cards," are expected of them.

**SECOND.** We can teach our children that, while everyone has to earn a living, material riches are a rather minor reward to strive for. According to a person's value system and individual nature, political power, inner independence, a life of contemplation, active missionary work for a cause, fulfillment as an artist, challenging historic or scientific research may be - even from a most egotistical point of view - infinitely more desirable than an existence earnestly geared to the making of money. We have come to a point today where people who are not innately money-directed feel a kind of moral obligation, nevertheless, to be successful financially, just to show to themselves and to the world that they are no laggards.

With high income becoming a measuring rod of a person's worth and social
prestige, why should anyone voluntarily choose such materialistically unrewarding
careers as civil or military service to the nation?

What normal, prudent father in this day and age would actually advise a son
or daughter to dedicate his or her life to a cause rather than to the eminently
practical and sensible goal of receiving maximum pay and very tangible remune-
ration for decades of work? How can we dare to direct those gifted and promi-
sing youngsters toward professions and occupations which clearly demand very
considerable personal sacrifices for but modest rewards? What answer does one
give to the brilliant man or woman who wants to get out of the military or of an
important position in government so as to provide (at last!) better for himself and
his long suffering family by making "some real money" in business? How, in other
words, can one recruit and retain individuals of excellence for public service? The
age-old answer to these questions is a rather simple one: Noblesse Oblige. Please
do note that I am not recommending this adage for public preaching but that I
am referring to it as something we should teach our children within the family. And
this is the meaning of the noblesse oblige shorthand message!

Any average person may, indeed, think primarily of himself and his clan but
human beings are differently endowed by God (or by chance) and if you, my son
or daughter happen to be particularly well endowed, if you truly belong to the

*Noblesse Oblige:*
*If you demanding*
*privileges and rights,*
*but imposing on it ab-*
*negation and duties.*

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excellent ones, then you do have a special obligation - nay, a mission - to bear heavier burdens and make greater sacrifices for a cause, e.g., good government, than the common herd.

I recognize, of course, the arrogance involved in such an elitist approach. Yet, it is an arrogance which does not demand privileges and rights for the elite, but imposes on it abnegation and duties.

My quarrel with egalitarianism is not that it denies special privileges to all and sundry, but that it does not admit the existence of special duties for SOME.

Any average person may, indeed, think primarily of himself and his clan but human beings are differently endowed by God (or by chance) and if you, my son or daughter happen to be particularly well endowed, if you truly belong to the excellent ones, then you do have a special obligation - nay, a mission - to bear heavier burdens and make greater sacrifices for a cause, e.g., good government, than the common herd.

Noblesse Oblige:

If you truly belong to the excellent ones, then you do have a special obligation - nay, a mission - to bear heavier burdens and make greater sacrifices for a cause, e.g., good government, than the common herd.

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Good bye,
Col. Dr. Fritz Kraemer !

written by: Hubertus Hoffmann

Fritz Kraemer gave power
and inner stability and
gave others the courage to
follow his ideals.

At the age of 95, one of the last Prussians passed away on September 8 2003 in Washington DC: Fritz Kraemer, retired colonel and geo-strategic advisor to the Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army for over 30 years, an influential advisor to a number of different Secretaries of Defense, German emigré with two PhDs and one monocle, a freedom fighter, combating "provocative weakness" and fighting for "peace through strength". The Pentagon's "éminence grise" was put to rest with Full Military Honors at the Arlington National Cemetery on October 8.

Throughout his long life, Fritz Kraemer acted as a dedicated "talent scout" and it was in this missionary-like role that he "discovered" and encouraged young people - like myself since 1979 - and held them in his thrall during numerous nighttime meetings. His sonorous voice would resound as he preached his creeds to us, often swinging his stick (with a built-in rapier) wildly in the air

After many hours of listening to our mentor, Fritz Kraemer - sometimes until 4 am in the morning - we felt as though an almost metaphysical power was flowing through our veins.

He left a very deep personal impression, forming the minds of his followers, through the strict look in his piercing eyes, his precise choice of words, the force of his dark, intense voice, the clarity of his thoughts, his incorruptibility, the modesty of his almost monk-like way of life, his universal knowledge accumulated from around the world in 95 years of first-hand experience.

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But he will also be remembered for the encouragement he gave us young men, our characters still unformed, and for his endearing, courteous manner.

When he was 17, Henry Kissinger was thoroughly enthralled by Dr. Fritz Kraemer, who took him with him into the 84th U.S. Infantry Division and made a strong impression on his mind. When Henry Kissinger was made U.S. Secretary of State under President Ford, their friendship was broken off. Why? In Kraemer's view: Kissinger's policy was "always flexible and open", whereas his true convictions were "always absolute".

Alexander Haig also has this geo-strategist at the Potomac to thank for his political career up to Secretary of State. When Kissinger was looking for a military assistant, his mentor put down his name as the only candidate on the list for this post, sent it to the Secretary of Defense and wrote a very heart-felt letter of recommendation to Kissinger. Kraemer had noted the brilliance of the late Major Alexander Haig years before in the Pentagon.

When I spoke to him of the Worldsecuritynetwork.com project, he encouraged me to further extend this non-profit newsletter on security and foreign policy for the international information elite.

Worldsecuritynetwork is imbued with some of Col. Fritz Kraemer's spirit - and of this we are proud.

Thank you, Dr. Kraemer!

Good bye, Col. Fritz Kraemer!

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# A Mighty Fortress is Our God

(Martin Luther)

1. A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing. Our helper he amid the flood, of mortal ills prevailing. For still our ancient foe, does seek to work us woe. His craft and power are great, and, armed with cruel hate, On earth is not his equal.

4. The Word above all earthly powers, no thanks to man abideth. That Spirit and the gifts are ours, through him who with us sideth. Let goods and kindred go, this mortal life also. The body they may kill: God's truth abideth still. His kingdom is forever.

## O God, Our Help in Ages Past

1. O God, our help in ages past, our hope for years to come, Our shelter from the stormy blast, and our eternal home.

3. Before the hills in order stood or earth received her frame, From everlasting thou art God, to endless years the same.

Organist

Dr. Randall Sheets

FRITZ G.A. KRAEMER

Fritz G. A. Kraemer was born in Essen, Germany on July 3, 1908. He studied at the Arndt Gymnasium in Berlin, the London School of Economics, the University of Geneva, and the University of Berlin before earning a doctorate in jurisprudence at the University of Frankfurt in 1931 and a doctorate in political science at the University of Rome in 1934. During most of the 1930s he was senior legal advisor to the League of Nations at the League's legal institute in Rome. In 1933 he married his wife of 65 years, Britta Bjorkander, a Swedish citizen, who preceded him in death in 1998. Their son, Sven, was born in England in 1938. Dr. Kraemer escaped Europe for America in 1939, but had to leave behind his wife and son, who were subsequently held in Germany for the duration of World War II. He became a U.S. citizen and entered the U.S. Army in April 1943 as an infantryman in the 84th Infantry "Railsplitter" Division. He fought in the Battle of the Bulge and in the battles for the Ruhr and Rhineland, earning a battlefield commission and a bronze star in the liberation of his former homeland. In 1945 he was reunited with his wife and son, and a daughter, Madeleine, was born in 1946. In 1947 he returned to America with his wife and children. He left active duty in 1948 and retired from the Army Reserve in 1958 with the rank of Lt. Colonel. From the early 1950s until 1978, when he retired from the Civil Service, he served as senior civilian advisor to the U.S. Army Chief of Staff. A graduate of the U.S. National War College, he advised, taught and inspired generations of officers, officials, and private citizens throughout his life. His lifelong service made a difference in the cause of freedom.

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