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1988 C-SPAN Video on Ikle-Wohlstetter Panel’s Strategy Report

On January 12, 1988, President Ronald Reagan’s Commission on Integrated Long-Term Strategy, a high-level panel chaired by outgoing Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Dr. Fred C. Iklé and strategist Albert Wohlstetter, assembled to publicly unveil their final report, Discriminate Deterrence. … Continue reading

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“Strategy as a Profession in the Future Security Environment” (2009) by Andrew W. Marshall

Strategy as a Profession in the Future Security Environment By Andrew W. Marshall Recently published as one of several commentaries in Robert Zarate and Henry Sokolski, Nuclear Heuristics:  Selected Writings of Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter (Strategic Studies Institute, 2009), pp. … Continue reading

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Update

Welcome back to AlbertWohlstetter.com!  We’re in the process of upgrading the website, so pardon us if you find any dead hyperlinks or what not.  We’re working out the kinks as quickly as possible.  In the meantime, check out the following … Continue reading

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Book Excerpt: Albert Wohlstetter’s Approach to Strategic Analysis and Design

This week’s excerpt from “Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter on Nuclear-Age Strategy,” Robert Zarate’s introductory essay to Nuclear Heuristics: Selected Writings of Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter (2009), looks at Albert’s approach to the analysis and design of strategic policy. For more, … Continue reading

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Excerpt on limiting and managing new risks in the post-Cold War world and beyond from Wohlstetter book’s introduction

This week’s excerpt from “Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter on Nuclear-Age Strategy,” Robert Zarate’s introductory essay to Nuclear Heuristics: Selected Writings of Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter (2009), looks at Albert and Roberta’s efforts to limit and manage new risks in the … Continue reading

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Selected Writings of Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter (2009)

Re-upping this content. — ed. Robert Zarate and Henry Sokolski, eds, Nuclear Heuristics: Selected Writings of Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter (Strategic Studies Institute, 2009). | Book review in Foreign Affairs magazine. ABOUT THE BOOK (Jump down to the Table of … Continue reading

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More Iklé-Wohlstetter Commission Working Group Reports (1988)

Albert Wohlstetter Dot Com is making available PDFs for three additional working group reports that were completed in 1988 as part of the Commission on Integrated Long-Term Strategy, also known as the Iklé-Wohlstetter Commission. The Future of Containment, report of … Continue reading

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The Future Security Environment (1988)

Albert Wohlstetter Dot Com is making available a PDF version of The Future Security Environment, an October 1988 report by the Commission on Integrated Long-Term Strategy’s eponymous working group. The Commission was chaired by Reagan’s former Undersecretary of Defense Fred … Continue reading

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NYT’s Richard Bernstein, Roberta Wohlstetter, and intelligence failures

Richard Bernstein recalls Roberta Wohlstetter and her work on understanding intelligence failures in “Intelligence Has Its Limitations” in The New York Times today.

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Wohlstetter photos on LIFE magazine archive

Came across 14 photos of Albert Wohlstetter from the LIFE Magazine photo archive hosted by Google. A few of the photos were taken for a 1959 profile of the RAND Corporation in LIFE Magazine: “Valuable Batch of Brains: An Odd … Continue reading

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