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Nuclear Heuristics: Selected Writings of Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter (2009)
Edited by Robert Zarate and Henry Sokolski, with commentaries by Henry S. Rowen, Alain C. Enthoven, Richard Perle, Stephen J. Lukasik, and Andrew W. Marshall.
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Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision (1962) by Roberta Wohlstetter
Swords from Plowshares: The Military Potential of Civil Nuclear Energy (1979) by Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter, Henry Rowen, et al.
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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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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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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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Roberta Wohlstetter on Pearl Harbor and “slow Pearl Harbors”
A few years ago James Johnson and Robert Zarate published in The Weekly Standard an article on Roberta Wohlstetter’s analysis of Pearl Harbor and concept of “slow Pearl Harbors” — an article that’s worth revisiting: James Johnson and Robert Zarate, … Continue reading
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Nuclear Heuristics reviewed in Foreign Affairs
Sir Lawrence Freedman, professor of war studies at King’s College London and nuclear historian par excellence, reviews Nuclear Heuristics: Selected Writings of Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter in the May/June 2009 issue of Foreign Affairs.
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Wohlstetter 101
For an overview of Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter’s historical contributions and continuing relevance to strategy in the nuclear age, check out: PDF version of Robert Zarate’s introductory essay to Nuclear Heuristics: Selected Writing of Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter (Strategic Studies … Continue reading
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C-SPAN2’s Book TV to broadcast Wohlstetter book event this weekend
Book TV on C-SPAN2 is bringing a television program on the continuing relevance of Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter‘s writings on nuclear-age strategy to you! On Sunday, March 15, at 6:00 AM (ET), and Monday, March 16, at 1:00 AM (ET), … Continue reading
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Excerpt on moving towards discriminate deterrence 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’s particular contributions from the 1950s onward to larger U.S. efforts to … Continue reading
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