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...said Dr. Alain C. Enthoven, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Analysis, in a lecture this month to the Naval War College at Newport, R.I. Enthoven (rhymes with went rov-in') was certainly right about one thing: when he starts submitting defense policy to his dispassionate, cold analysis, generals explode and admirals shiver their timbers. For of all Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's famed Pentagon whiz kids, Enthoven, at 32, is by far the whizziest...
...Shopping List. What is a whiz kid? Well, by definition he is young and bright. The tools of his Pentagon trade are a piece of chalk, a blackboard on which to slash equations, and a computing machine. Dispassionate, cold analysis is his business, and Systems Analyst Enthoven has no peer. His analysis of the workings of the Pentagon goes as follows: "I think it can best be described as a continuing dialogue between the policymaker and the systems analyst, in which the policymaker [McNamara] asks for alternative solutions to his problems, while the analyst attempts to clarify the conceptual framework...
...working on guerrilla warfare, one of them remembered reading books by British-born Author John Masters, whose The Road Past Mandalay described his World War II experiences with Orde Wingate's Chindits behind the Japanese lines in Burma, got Masters to write several valuable reports on guerrilla warfare. Enthoven calculated that one Chinook helicopter could do the job-at less expense in men and money-now performed by 15 to 20 of the Army's workhorse "deuce and a half"' (2½-ton) trucks. And Dr. Merton Joseph Peck helped design the celebrated McNamara blueprint for reorganizing...
...Alain C. Enthoven, 31, intense and dark-suited, looks more like a young college professor than a weapons analyst. Yet, as deputy comptroller for systems analysis, this young economist must lay bare the calculations on which many defense decisions are made. After graduating from Stanford with honors in economics, spending two years at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar and getting his Ph.D. from M.I.T., he joined the Rand Corp. think factory, where he helped direct a major study of Strategic Air Command operations and strategy that later became part of the Kennedy Administration's defense policy. Deeply concerned...
Merton Joseph Peck, 36, came to the Pentagon last July after teaching for five years at the Harvard Business School, now is assistant deputy comptroller for systems analysis under Dr. Enthoven. A graduate of Oberlin College and Harvard. Economist Peck, who looks strikingly like a younger McNamara, first got interested in defense problems at Harvard during a Ford Foundation study of the economic aspects of weapons procurement. Says he: "Defense is really the dominant problem of our times. If you're concerned about the world, naturally you get interested in this." His specialty is non-nuclear ground forces...