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...Colonel Beukema started a course at West Point called The Resources for War of the Great Powers. Because there were few English textbooks on his subject, he wrote his own.* His basic texts: The Great Powers in World Politics, by Frank Simonds and Brooks Emeny; The Economics of War, by Horst Mendershausen...
This collegiate ground-breaking is due in no small part to an eleven-year campaign by a bronzed, lean artilleryman at West Point. He is Colonel Herman Beukema, 50, Michigan-born son of a smalltown newspaperman. A West Point graduate ('15), he was stationed in Germany for six months after World War I, there met three brilliant young German officers whose sensational theories about total war launched him on a career as student of geopolitics. Today Colonel Beukema declares that history will rate Karl Haushofer, prophet of German geopolitics, more important than Adolf Hitler, because Haushofer's studies...
Disturbed by lack of military scholarship in U.S. colleges (until recently the keenest analyses of U.S. military history were written not by Americans but by Europeans), Beukema expounded his ideas to sympathetic civilian educators. Notable among these was Professor Edward Mead Earle, who two years ago started a seminar in U.S. military policy for top-flight scholars at the Institute for Advanced Study (in Princeton...
...Colonel Beukema's course at West Point is packed with facts about strategic raw materials, Latin America, productive capacity, the efficiency of each great power's form of government for conducting war. He also concerns himself with studies unusual for a soldier-planning the peace to follow the war. Typical question to his students: "With respect to the Far East, what alignment of powers in your opinion would insure peace in that area...
Elated that the U.S. had at last begun its geopolitical education, Colonel Beukema last week cautioned collegiate geopoliticians not to be too academic. "Most of our planning up to now," said he, "has been too damn long-range...