Word: enthoven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With a homogeneous Cabinet sharing Nixon's outlook, the second-level officials will become even more important, especially in State, Labor, and Treasury. The clearest early indication of Laird's attitude at the Pentagon will be what type of man he names to replace Alain Enthoven, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Analysis, or whether the post is filled at all. The new Commissioner of Education can indicate what the Administration's attitude toward student protesters will be and its decision on the financial crisis of higher education Nixon's soft approach to civil rights enforcement might be hardened...
...prices soared to as much as ten times the official rate. At the same time that the North's military capability has skidded into a downward curve, the South's is on the upswing. According to a Pentagon study conducted by Assistant Secretary of Defense Dr. Alain Enthoven, South Viet Nam's armed forces along with its Regional and Popular Forces have improved enough in the past two years to equal the introduction of 190,000 more U.S. fighting...
...analyzing individual problems, Enthoven continued, the most difficult part is the treatment of uncertainties, such as determining the probability of a given situation actually occurring. For this he relies more on "slide rules and pencils" than on computers, Enthoven said...
...basic objectives in defense planning, Enthoven said, are the minimization of damage to ourselves and our allies in case of enemy attack, and the insurance of adequate capacity to retaliate...
...Enthoven has participated in studies of projected ICBM requirements, non-nuclear NATO defense strategy, and rapid deployment of troops. The approach to all these problems is what Enthoven calls a simple marginal analysis: determining how much better one alternative will serve long-range objectives than another alternative under various conditions. "It's quantitative common sense," he explained...