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  • A Winnable War. The argument against the orthodox history of Vietnam. [Book review]

    01/06/2007 8:21:30 AM PST · by aculeus · 32 replies · 2,486+ views
    Weekly Standard ^ | January 15, 2007 | by Mackubin Thomas Owens
    Triumph Forsaken The Vietnam War, 1954-1965 by Mark Moyar Cambridge, 542 pp., $32 In the late summer of 1963, President John Kennedy dispatched two observers to South Vietnam. Their mission was to provide the president an assessment of the regime of Ngo Dinh Diem, the president of the Republic of Vietnam. The first, Major General Victor Krulak, USMC, the special assistant for counterinsurgency for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, visited some ten locations in all four Corps areas of Vietnam. Based on extensive interviews with U.S. advisers to the South Vietnamese army, Krulak concluded that the war was going well....
  • WSJ: The Great Game - Nobel Prize winner Schelling used game theory to understand human behavior

    10/11/2005 6:22:29 AM PDT · by OESY · 11 replies · 587+ views
    Wall Street Journal ^ | October 11, 2005 | DAVID R. HENDERSON
    ...Mr. Schelling's early work was on the most important issue of the Cold War: preventing it from becoming a Hot War. In his classic 1960 book "The Strategy of Conflict," Mr. Schelling, who had spent a year at the RAND Corporation, laid out some important applications of game theory to the issue of nuclear war. In one passage, he discussed the U.S.-Soviet conflict in terms anyone could relate to: a hypothetical duel. He wrote that "if both [duelists] were assured of living long enough to shoot back with unimpaired aim, there would be no advantage in jumping the gun and...
  • Israeli, American Win Nobel for Economics

    10/10/2005 4:44:52 AM PDT · by alessandrofiaschi · 17 replies · 952+ views
    Yahoo ^ | MATT MOORE
    STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Israeli and U.S. citizen Robert J. Aumann and American Thomas C. Schelling have won the 2005 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. The pair won the prize "for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis," the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said Monday. Through their work, Aumann, 75, and Schelling, 84, have helped to "explain economic conflicts such as price wars and trade wars, as well as why some communities are more successful than others in managing common-pool resources," the academy said in its citation. "The repeated-games approach clarifies the raison d'etre of...