HARVARD UNIVERSITY

CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

ROBERT R. BOWIE, Director
HOLLIS B. CHENERY
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON
ALEX INKELES
HENRY A. KISSINGER
SEYMOUR M. LIPSET
EDWARD S. MASON
GUSTAV F. PAPANEK
THOMAS C. SCHELLING
RAYMOND VERNON

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CAMBRIDGE
MASSACHUSETTS 02138

BIOGRAPHICAL DATA ON PROFESSOR EUGENE SKOLNIKOFF

1966- present: Associate Professor of Political Science at MIT

1965- present: Visiting Professor at the Fletcher School

1963-1966: Research Associate in Political Science at MIT

1958-1963 : on the White House Staff as Special Assistant to the
President for Science and Technology

1966 - 1. D. A.

Publications include: *Science, Technology and American Foreign Policy*
(MIT Press 1967)

and numerous articles dealing with the relation of science and scientists
to policy formation

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

November 20, 1968

Professor Thomas Schelling
Center for International Affairs
Harvard University
6 Divinity Avenue

Dear Tom:

General Maxwell Taylor is speaking at the Defense Policy
Seminar on Monday, December 2, and will stay for dinner
before catching an 8:45 plane.

If you would like to have a bite with us, we would like to see
you. If you can come, please let my secretary, Mrs. Means,
know. (Extension 2125) ✓

Warm regards,

ANNOUNCEMENTS

L. Sections will not meet this week but will meet next week.

2. Speaker next week will be General Maxwell Taylor on "Counterinsurgency and Vietnam.

BIOGRAPHICAL DATA ON HERMAN KAHN

-You once introduced Kahn like this:

"Herman Kahn is often cited as an example of the depravity to which the human race can fall. I have plagarized much from him..."

-Director of the Hudson Institute and Member of the Professional Staff. He was its principle founder.

-Previous to the Institute he was associated for 12 years with the RAND Corp.

-He has served as consultant to The Gaither Committee on Civil Defense and Strategic Warfare, the USAF Scientific Advisory Board, the AEC, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the Office of Emergency Planning, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Army, Navy, and Air Force, and to numerous industrial and scientific concerns.

-His most recent publication was *Can We Win in Vietnam*, written in collaboration with the Hudson Institute Staff.

November 25, 1968

M. Raymond Aron
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes
Sciences Economiques et Sociales
6, Rue de Tournon
Paris 6, France

Dear Raymond:

Thank you for your letter of November 12.

To make it harder for you to refuse I am going ahead and
putting you down to address the Defense Policy Seminar on
March 24. This way at least you cannot say you have never
been asked. It has been far too long since we have seen
you in Cambridge. Stanley tells me you have agreed to come
to our West European Seminar. I am delighted.

I hope all goes well in Paris between now and March and I
am looking forward to seeing you this spring.

Henry A. Kissinger

ROBERT R. BOWIE, Director

ALEX INKELES

HENRY A. KISSINGER

EDWARD S. MASON

THOMAS C. SCHELLING

RAYMOND VERNON

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SPEAKERS FOR THE REST OF THE FALL

<table><tr><td>Oct. 14</td><td>Executive Policy Making</td><td>Kissinger</td></tr><tr><td>Oct. 21</td><td>Aspects of Defense Organization</td><td>Enthoven</td></tr><tr><td>Oct. 28</td><td>Technology and Defense: a Re-evaluation</td><td>Brodie</td></tr><tr><td>Nov. 4</td><td>Science and Defense</td><td>Skolnikoff</td></tr><tr><td>Nov. 11</td><td>Veterans Day</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Nov. 18</td><td>Intelligence and Defense Policy</td><td>Bissell</td></tr><tr><td>Nov. 25</td><td>New Revolutionary Movements and the Year 2000</td><td>Kahn</td></tr><tr><td>Dec. 2</td><td>Counterinsurgency and Vietnam</td><td>Taylor</td></tr><tr><td>Dec. 9</td><td>Soviet Military Strategy</td><td>Wolfe</td></tr><tr><td>Dec. 16</td><td>Asian Security after Vietnam</td><td>Halperin</td></tr></table>

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION ON ALAIN ENTHOVEN

Became Assistant Secretary of Defense (Systems Analysis) 1965.

Won the President's award for Federal civil service 1963 - Kennedy.

Appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense 1962

Has taught at MIT and University of Washington

Has worked for RAND and Brookings on strategic operations and weapons

Special field is the economics of defense.

N.B. Enthoven is coming over to our office. I will make him some drinks and bring him to the Board Room. E. called and will go directly to the Pound room by 4.00.

Tracy

BIOGRAPHICAL DATA ON PROFESSOR KENNETH WALTZ

Teaching:

NSF grant for work on a theory of international politics, 1968-70

Research Associate CFIA, Harvard, 1963-4 and 1968-9

Professor (Adlai Stevenson Prof. of International Politics), Brandeis, 1966

Professor, Swarthmore, 1957-66

Publications:

Man, the State and War: Theoretical Analysis
Foreign Policy and Democratic Politics: The American and British Experience

Associations:

Secretary, American Political Science Association, 1966-7

Board of Editors, International Studies Quarterly

Consultant, NSF, Department of HEW, Hudson Institute

Member Harvard-MIT Arms Control Seminar

Lecturer National War College and Army War College

SEP 17 1968

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

FALL SPEAKERS

*** Note bracketed names means reply pending.

| Date | Speaker | Title | Speaker/Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sept. 23 | Force and International Politics | Kissinger | |
| Sept. 30 | Evolution of U.S. Defense Policy | WALTZ (Scholling) | |
| Oct. 7 | Executive Policy Making | Bator | |
| Oct. 14 | The Nature of U.S. Involvement | Kissinger | |
| Oct. 21 | Defense Organization | Enthoven | |
| Oct. 28 | Congress and Defense Policy Making | (Jackson) | |
| Nov. 4 | Science and Defense Policy | (Skolnikoff) | |
| Nov. 11 | Budget | ----Veteran's Day: Sections | |
| Nov. 18 | Intelligence and Defense Policy | Bissell | |
| Nov. 25 | The Defense of Europe | Brodie | |
| Dec. 2 | Vietnam | Taylor | |
| Dec. 9 | Soviet Military Strategy | Wolfe | |
| Dec. 16 | Asian Security after Vietnam | Halperin | |

NOV 25 1960 (10)

HUDSON INSTITUTE
Croton-on-Hudson, New York

HERMAN KAHN
Director, Hudson Institute
and Member of the Professional Staff

Herman Kahn, a physicist and specialist in public policy analyses, is Director and Trustee of Hudson Institute and was its principal founder. As Director he is the senior officer and has principal responsibility for the over-all research program. Among his major interests at Hudson Institute have been studies on Latin American and other development problems, inquiries into alternative world futures and long-run (10 to 35 years) political, economic, technological and cultural changes, and research into strategic warfare and basic national security policies.

Before he left to help found Hudson Institute in 1961, Mr. Kahn was associated for twelve years with The RAND Corporation. There he worked on problems in applied physics and mathematics, operations research and systems analysis, weapon design, particle and radiation diffusion, civil defense, and strategic warfare. During 1959 he was on leave for six months as a Visiting Research Associate at the Princeton Center for International Studies while working on the manuscript of his book, *On Thermonuclear War*.

Mr. Kahn is the author of five books: *On Thermonuclear War* (Princeton University Press, New Jersey, 1960); *Thinking About the Unthinkable* (Horizon Press, New York, 1962); *On Escalation: Metaphors and Scenarios* (Frederick A. Praeger, New York, 1965); in collaboration with Anthony J. Wiener, *The Year 2000: A Framework for Speculation on the Next Thirty-Three Years* (The Macmillan Company, New York, 1967) prepared for the Commission on the Year 2000 of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; and with members of the Institute Staff, *Can We Win in Vietnam?* (Praeger, New York, 1968).
He has written articles for such publications as *New York Times Magazine*, *Fortune*, *Saturday Evening Post*, *Bulletin of Atomic Scientists*, *Daedalus*, and *Commentary*, and has also contributed articles to several books on defense and foreign policies. Among his publications while at The RAND Corporation are articles on such subjects as gamma ray absorption, Monte Carlo methods, systems analysis techniques, war gaming, and game theory, in addition to his writings on strategic warfare. He has lectured at the Army, Air, Industrial and National War Colleges, the University of Chicago, Yale, Berkeley, Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, London School of Economics, the California and Massachusetts Institutes of Technology, and other universities and at defense study centers in France, Germany, Holland, Israel, Norway, and Sweden.

Mr. Kahn has served as a consultant to The Gaither Committee on Civil Defense and Strategic Warfare, the U.S.A.F. Scientific Advisory Board, the Atomic Energy Commission, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the Office of Emergency Planning, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Army, Navy and Air Force, and to numerous industrial and scientific concerns.

Born in 1922, Mr. Kahn holds a B.A. degree in physics and mathematics from the University of California at Los Angeles (1945) and a M.S. degree in physics from California Institute of Technology (1948). He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (New York), the Center for International American Relations, the American Political Science Association, Phi Beta Kappa, and Phi Mu Epsilon.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

-He has served as consultant to The Gaither Committee on Civil Defense and Strategic Warfare, the USAF Scientific Advisory Board, the AEC, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the Office of Emergency Planning, the O-fice of the Secretary of Defense, the Army, Navy, and Air Force, and to numerous industrial and scientific concerns.

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION ON BERNARD BRODIE

- U. of Calif., Los Angeles, Professor of Political Sci. since 1966.

- Senior Staff member RAND 1951-66.

- Has done consultant work for National War College, Special Ass't to
USAF Chief of Staff

- Author of books:

Sea Power in the Machine Age

A Guide to Naval Strategy

The Absolute Weapon

From Cross-Bow to H Bomb (co-author)

La Guerre Nucleaire

Strategy in the Missile Age

1966 - 1. D. A

KENNETH WALTZ

Prof. Swarthmore 1957-66

Prof. Brandeis, 1966 (Adlaie Stevenson Prof of Int'l Polit)

Research Associate CFIA Harvard 1963-4 and 68-9

NSF grant for work on a theory of int'l politics, 1968-70

Secretary, Amer. Polit. Sci. Assoc. 1966-7

Board of Editors int'l Studies Quarterly

Consultant NSF, Dept of HEW, Hudson Institute

Member H-MIT Arms Control Seminar

Man the State and War: Theoretical Analysis

FO and Dem Polit: The Amer and B Exp 67

OUNCEMENTS

I. The absence of Professor Kissinger due to affairs of state....

2. All sections will meet *next* week at the regular time and place.
None will meet this week.

3. Speaker next week will be Thomas Wolfe on "Soviet Military Strategy."

4. BIO on General Taylor

Presently: President, Institute for Defense Analyses
Special Consultant to the President
Chairman of the President's Foreign Inte_lligence Advisory Board

A long career in the Army starting in 1922 as a 2nd Lt. upon graduation
from West Point.

1949 Chief of Staff for Armed Forces in Europe

1955 US and UN Commander in Far East

1955-59 Chief of Staff, US Army

Retired in 1959 but was called back to active service in 1961

1962-64 Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff

1964-65 Ambassador to South Vietnam

Recipient of many decorations and awards from the US and foreign countries
including: Distinguished Service Cross; the Croix de Guerre with Palm;
Knight Commander, OBE; Great Cross of the National Order of South Vietnam.

Publications:

The Uncertain Trumpet 1960

Responsibility and Response 1967

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## DECORATIONS AND AWARDS:
(cont'd.)

Ethiopia: Cordon of Trinity Medal with the Plaque.

France: Legion of Honor, Grade of Commander; Croix de Guerre with Palm.

Great Britain: Honorary Knight Commander of the Military Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire; Honorary Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath (Military Division); Distinguished Service Order.

Greece: Higher Commanders Cross of Our Order of George I.

Italy: Military Order of Italy, Degree of Commander; Order to the Merit of the Italian Republic, Degree of Grand Officer.

Japan: Order of the Rising Sun, First Class.

Korea: Taeguk Distinguished Military Service with Gold Star (1st and 2nd Awards); Presidential Unit Citation Badge.

Mexico: Order of Military Merit, First Class.

Netherlands: Militaire Willems-Order, IV Class; Orange Lanyard.

Peru: Military Order of Ayachucho, Commander.

Philippine Islands: Legion of Honor, Degree of Chief Commander.

South Viet Nam: Great Cross of the National Order.

Spain: Grand Cross of the Order of Military Merit.

Thailand: Most Noble Order of the Crown of Thailand, First Class.

**CLUBS:** University, Lotos (New York City); Chevy Chase, Army and Navy, Army Navy Country, Alibi, International (Washington, D.C.).

**PUBLICATIONS:** *The Uncertain Trumpet*, 1960; *Responsibility and Response*, 1967.