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That’s a pretty multidisciplinary get-up too.

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Yes, his letters to Kent sympathised with the latter’s huge dissolutionment with State’s treatment of R&A.

McCormack was still championing Sherman Kent when Kent was looking for funding for his Strategic Intelligence for American World Policy book. So clearly R&A was seen as a success. Possibly too, RAND had been persuasive in showing social scientists added value.

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In The Ideas Industry, Drezner says the equivocation of SS explanations don't stand a chance against the simple arguments of techopians. My wife says, since I became a “poliwonk” I never give a straight answer to anything. That might be true. The reverse might also be true. 7/8

Yet there was a desperate need to understand the world better. We think of the CW intellectuals: the shopping list pedantry of Hans Morgenthau; Kenneth Waltz’s gruff systemisation. We admire the process they brought to it, at the same time feeling they fell short of the mark. 6/8

Sherman Kent understood very quickly that estimating intentions and capabilities might be a thankless task. “In intelligence, as in other callings, estimating is what you do when you do not know.” 5/8

Raymond Garthoff got a call from his boss asking the size of the Soviet army. It depended, he said, who you counted: border guards, construction troops, did he want divisions and major arms, or manpower? Amory interjected, ‘Don’t give me a dissertation, Ray, just the answer.’ 4/8

Faced with R&A or the Board of Economic Warfare, Arthur Schlesinger Jnr didn’t relish the thought of going to OSS’s thinktank. "Depressing," he said "to be in the middle of a lot of PhD’s once again." But he chose R&A because he felt more at home with polsci than economics. 3/8

Harvard historian William Langer had faced such skepticism before. As head of OSS’s Research and Analysis (R&A), he said Washington’s reception during wartime had been chilly. The professors had been treated with derision and suspicion, and sometimes downright hostility. 2/8