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...Project struck me in many ways as good. engaged reporting. The Harvardian reference to MIT as the "house whore" of the Defense Department struck me as undue protestation, however, and not totally accurate. We have freely sheltered. even nourished a number of polite and not so respectful crities of DOD. including Jerome Weisner, Richard Goodwin, W. W. Kaufman and Noam Chomsky...
...views were somewhat incompletely and at one point inaccurately reported. I asserted that DOD supports over half of current American foreign areas (not all behavioral), research. The sponsorship is not unimportant, moreover, because it 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...
...Armed Forces [April 11] may I, as a Canadian Forces officer who has worked closely with members of all your services since 1952, be allowed to comment. The officers and NCOs of the U.S. forces with whom I have served are serving you-the U.S. public-extremely well. Your DOD is indeed the Department of Peace and I believe there are too few citizens who share the dedication to their country that your servicemen do. To be able to raise forces (under the threat of the draft) as professional, responsible and dedicated to the aims of political direction which gives...
...work stoppage, said yesterday that he had not heard much talk about the protest at Harvard. Explaining his participation in the protest, he said, "I think that there is very little way for people to find out with any authoritativeness just what purposes science is used for by the DOD...
...Defense Department's study of the practicability of a volunteer army, made five years ago, proved to the department's satisfaction that it still would not work. Even allowing for growth in military-age population, DOD found that it could not expect to get more than 2,000,000 men, at least 700,000 short of pre-Viet Nam needs. As for the possibilities of increasing incentives, the Pentagon concluded that "pay alone is a less potent factor than might be expected" and that fringe benefits have small appeal for young men not deeply conscious of the value...