The American Conservative
by James P. Pinkerton

Review of The Worlds of Herman Kahn: "After Hiroshima, the conclusion of American strategists was that military history didn't matter much anymore. The atomic bomb seemed to have changed war so drastically that now, more than ever, fighting was too important to be left to generals. Out of that new belief came Robert McNamara's 'Whiz Kids,' the systems-analyzing technocrats who gave us the Vietnam War. Decades later, that same generalized feeling -- that in the face of the new, history was bunk and anything was possible -- gave rise to George W. Bush's neoconservatives, the WMD-mongering apparatchiks who launched the Iraq War. But before the prominence of either of these groups there was Herman Kahn, the subject of this new book by Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi... (for publication 10/10/05)

http://www.amconmag.com/2005/2005_10_10/review.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp