ABSTRACT
After 1945, an even greater proportion devoted themselves to examine, not how wars should be fought, but how they could be prevented, and the study of strategy merged into that of arms control, disarmament and peace-keeping. There the ‘classical strategists’ found themselves working with scholars of a different kind; men who believed that the element of force was not a necessary part of international intercourse, but could be eliminated by an application of the methodology of the social sciences. This chapter concerns the thinkers who assume that the element of force exists in international relations, that it can and must be intelligently controlled, but that it cannot be totally eliminated. NATO planners had to think what could be done with the weapons they had available, not with those which might or might not be developed in ten years’ time. But many scientists and academic strategists, particularly in the United States, were already thinking ahead.
