Category Archives: In Focus

“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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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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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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