"Well I certainly second that, I think in addition, well I mean other things I've written suggest reading a lot of history, and uh, clearly one of the things you want people to understand is the uncertainty of things. I mean, how you really have to look at a variety of alternative futures. Any notion that you know what's going to happen, I think is, not going to work."
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Replying to a question "about what young people who want to enter his field should study", at a book talk centered around the Writings of Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter.
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Andrew W. Marshall
1949 – 2022
Andrew W. Marshall (born 13 September 1921) is the director of the United States Department of Defense's Office of Net Assessment. In his early years he was a main member of the RAND Corporation's, council per se, on nuclear strategy and theory, along with Herman Kahn, Albert Wohlstetter, Harry Rowen, and William Kaufmann. Appointed to the position in 1973 by United States President [[Rich
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