THE EMERGING FIELD OF NATIONAL SECURITY

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000102250013-4
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• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 8, 2014
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: October 1, 1966
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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THE EMERGING FIELD OF
NATIONAL SECURITY
By P. G. BOCK and MORTON BERKOWITZ
Davis B. Bobrow, editor, Components of Defense Policy, Chicago, Rand
McNally, 1965, 445 pp. $3.95 (paper).
Dale J. I-Ickhuis, Charles G. McClintock, and Arthur L. Burns, editors,
International Stability: Military, Economic and Political Dimensions, New
York, John Wiley & Sons, 1964, 2(;6 pp. 1.6.00.
E. S. Quade, editor, Analysis for Military Decisions, Chicago, Rand McNally,
1964, 382 pp. $1o.00.
Herbert C. Kelman, editor, International Behavior: A Social-Psychological
Analysis, New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965, 626 pp. $12.95.
ONE of the most striking developments in post-World War II
social science research has been the emergence of an area of
inquiry commonly called national security affairs. The impetus for
this development can be ascribed primarily to two major changes in
the international environment: the atmosphere of urgency generated
by the unremitting stress of the cold war and the emergence of a fabu-
lous new technology of violence. This technology took the traditional
military problems of strategy and war out of the hands of the mili-
tary and put them into the hands of civilian experts who previously
had not applied their expertise to military affairs. Furthermore, since
war came to be viewed as a self-defeating policy alternative, scholars
and policy-makers were compelled to pay serious and systenlatie at-
tention to the development of methods of conflict containment and
conflict resolution.
Once the complexity of national security affairs became obvious, new
institutions and modes of administration had to be introduced.' The
establishment of the National Security Council and the Special As-
sistant to the President for National Security Affairs after World
War II marked the beginning of governmental concern with the
new field. The National Security Act of 1947 specifically talks of
providing for "integrated policies and procedures for the departments,
agencies and functions of the Government relating to the national se-
'Only a few highlights of this institutional' growth can be given here. For a fuller
description, see Gene M. Lyons and Louis Morton, Schools for Strategy: Education
and Research in National Security Affairs (New York t965).
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