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...than the understanding of information gathering and exchange for crisis-decision-making. This understanding would not be tied to the particular situation but would have a broad usage at the DOD and other government agencies as well. The analysis of Professor Griffith's collection of documents on comparative communism would be valuable in itself but even more valuable would be a technique for semantic analysis and thematic recognition by computers. The CIA, for example, collects enormous amounts of raw intelligence data from which meaningful patterns must be inferred. The sheer bulk of data makes the process too laborious...
...Gobineau in the mid-nineteenth century and the anti-Semites of post-World War I Europe helped create atmospheres in which genocide was an intellectual possibility. More recently, some Cold War historians, describing a "monolithic Communist bloc," have given an academic cushion for an American government that indiscriminately opposes Communism...
...what former Ambassador to India John Kenneth Galbraith calls the most "categorically mischievous and wicked" action it has ever taken, began to build up Pakistan as a military power. With India pursuing a policy of calculated coolness toward the U.S., Washington turned to Pakistan as a potential ally against Communism: in return Pakistan provided special facilities, including a base that was used for U-2 overflights of the Soviet Union (Francis Gary Powers took off from this airfield...
Pakistan, however, viewed the connection as insurance against India, not Communism. After 1965, when the U.S. cut off military aid to both countries, India turned to the Soviet Union and Pakistan to China. With Russia's help, India has built itself into a military power far superior to Pakistan. Its forces (980,000) outnumber Pakistan's (392,000) by more than 2 to 1; its air and naval capacity is also rated superior. If India were to fight Pakistan alone, there is little doubt which would...
Mutual Fears. The Greek-Albanian example is part of a growing trend toward regional cooperation. The area is divided into five political camps: pro-Western, nonaligned, Maoist, and two variations of Moscow-oriented Communism. But leaders of the Balkans, motivated mainly by pragmatic economics and a desire to keep big powers from exploiting the region's problems for their own purposes, are making efforts to end old disputes. Yugoslavia, for example, has ended its old quarrel with Albania and is granting greater autonomy to the Albanian minority within its borders...