Word: halperine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...obvious lesson of the Pentagon papers is that bureaucracies do not always function as they are supposed to, especially in their primary role of advising the President. Less apparent are the reasons why. Leslie Gelb, 34, and Morton Halperin, 33, both middle-ranking officials in the Pentagon under Robert McNamara, played key roles in the preparation of the Viet Nam study, and are currently at work on books. Working separately, the two arrived at similar conclusions on bureaucratic breakdowns. Part of the answer, they suggest, lies in the "rules of the game" by which all Washington bureaucrats traditionally play. Some...
...Halperin agrees, noting that "there is nobody who fits the following criterion: a full-time employee of the U.S. Government who worked on Viet Nam and who resigned and publicly stated that he was doing so because he disagreed with our policy there. There isn't even anyone who fits most...
With the decline in importance of the Fellows' program in the early '60's, the significance of the Center's scholarly activity shifted to the field of arms control. The major specialists in this field were Schelling and Morton H. Halperin, a close associate of Henry A. Kissinger (also on the Center staff) who joined Kissinger and the Nixon administration as a part-time consultant to the National Security Council in 1969. Their major contribution to arms control theory was the incorporation of diplomatic strategy as a factor in non-proliferation. Here again, however, their work was inevitably undertaken within...
...more, the new arms control policy did not apply to conventional warfare, through which the atomic powers could enforce their will on non-nuclear nations by virtue of their prior nuclear monopoly. In a study undertaken at the bidding of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency in 1965, Halperin applied this doctrine to the Chinese Communists. The Chinese, he writes...
Doubtful Doctrine. Such differences indicate that the Nixon Doctrine, calling for "Asian initiatives" in self-defense, may prove devilishly difficult to put into practice. Two years ago, Political Scientist Morton Halperin, a veteran of Clark Clifford's Defense Department, said: "A threat is important only if it is regarded as such by those in the region." As the Thai example shows, the countries of Southeast Asia are a long way from agreeing on the nature of the threat...