K. Subrahmanyam may be the most exceptional strategic thinker that Western Wonks have never read. During the 1990s, we disagreed intensely about so many things that a mutual friend arranged for a cooling off session over lunch at the India International Centre in Delhi. After an awkward silence, my dining companion asked, “So what shall …
Summer Study on Arms Control 1960
by | 2010-04-16 | 1 Comment
Well, you were going to get a post on the 2010 Nuclear Posture Review and the “clean” Negative Security Assurance — until I checked my mailbox. This bad boy arrived. This is the collected papers — and meeting notes — of the American Academy’s 1960 summer study on Arms Control. A couple of guys named …
Schelling at New America on Friday
by | 2010-04-15 | 10 Comments
So, I go to meetings on “deterring Iran” all the time where someone says “I think Thomas Schelling would say …” The funny thing is, Tom is still around. And he has actual opinions on the issue. One needn’t perform exegesis on Strategy and Conflict or try to extrapolate from Arms and Influence. You can …
Gardening and Arms Control
by | 2010-04-15 | 4 Comments
I contend, as readers of these posts know, that being a Red Sox fan is helpful training for the profession of arms control. So, too, is gardening. At the ripe old age of 68, Thomas Jefferson wrote, I have often thought that if heaven had given me a choice of my position and calling, it …
