Word: beukema
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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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...
Organized by Colonel Herman Beukema, professor of economics, government and history at West Point (see p. 56), the new educational program will run for two months, enable soldiers to hear such observers as Raymond Clapper, Hanson W. Baldwin, Carl Crow, Vilhjalmur Stefansson. Since part of the course will be a day-to-day interpretation of current events, maps are being installed in soldiers' day rooms on which shifting battles can be checked and charted...
While Colonel Beukema's program was getting under way, another Army educational venture went into high gear on a smaller front. To a series of three-times-a-week classes planned by hard-boiled Lieut. General Ben Lear and soft-spoken Major Robert Allen Griffin (TIME, Nov. 24) went the 125,000 officers and men of the Second Army. The Lear-Griffin outline of their program...