Word: deutsche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cambridge Project can provide vital information to the Defense Department and at the same time further the interests of peace, Karl W. Deutsch, professor of Government, told a public meeting yesterday at the First Parish Church of Cambridge...
...Defense Department had had accurate means of determining how the North Vietnamese people and the Viet Cong would react to an American troop build-up, Deutsch said, the Pentagon could have predicted the trend toward escalation and avoided it. Instead, Washington based its policy on the mistaken idea that large numbers of guerillas would desert rather than face a long war, be added. In that instance, Deutsch explained, the Pentagon could have furthered the interests of peace through the application of social science research...
...tends to develop greater in-house capabilities for achieving DOD aims, perpetuates a loathsome Congressional discrimination against social-scientist-controlled funding sources, and puts many researchers. especially those interested in foreign areas, in a "conflict of interest" situation. On the other hand. I agreed with the views of Professor Deutsch, noted in the article, that reality assessments using expensive, "hard" techniques may help reduce Pentagon tension-related. idealogically based distortion tendencies, which have sometimes helped cause disastrous wars of miscalculation. And I have been trying, with the expectation of at best modest success, to get students in my courses...
...social scientist I believe passionately in what Deutsch said, that we have "a common commitment that the truth will not be immoral." It may be that the truth is nonmoral, that the same techniques usable by Madison Avenue to sell highway deaths may be used by the Panthers to sell political awareness. But one has to have a little faith in the radical studentry of this country, whose drive to sniff out inconvenient facts from a mass of inertial archives is legendary and often very embarrassing to authority. The Cambridge Project is not at all restricted...
...Deutsch has plans to use the facilities made available through the Cambridge Project to develop a theoretical model of national assimilation and social mobilization. Projects of this type- the possible applications of which are simply impossible to predict- are not likely to receive support from anywhere if they don't get it from the Defense Department. Everyone would prefer that the money were available from the National Science Foundation, but it just isn't. And this calls for a final disgression...