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Strategic Thought at RAND, 1948-1960: The Ideas, Their Origins, Their Fates

James Digby

June 1990

RAND Corporation

“This document reports on how a bright and innovative group of people at the young RAND Corporation came to learn about military strategy and to make important contributions to that field in the first 15 years of the Corporation. It draws on memories, documents, discussions, and interviews. The account is organized loosely according to certain main ideas that came out of those fruitful years, with emphasis on the new field of nuclear strategy.”