Computers and policy-making

Most observers of US foreign policy decision-making would probably agree that, whatever the virtues or defects of a particular policy choice, the process by which decisions are reached on crisis or incipient crisis situa- tions leaves something to be desired.Despite good intentions, there persists an all-too- frequent tendency to be taken by surprise, to lurch from crisis to crisis, to under-use instru- ments of preventive diplomacy, and to be faced with situations in which only undesir- able military options are available.The Nixon administration has identified some aspects of this problem, and announced various organizational and methodological means to overcome them.The results to date are, to say the least, not entirely convincing.And while as Americans our first concern is with US policy, the problem is by no means confined to the US decision-making apparatus.Rather, this tendency represents a weak- ness of governments in general, and of in- ternational organizations such as the United Nations, in anticipating and forfending un- wanted and undesirable policy outcomes.If we define &dquocrisis&dquo as a short-time, highthreat, unexpected political-military situa- tion (Hermann, 1969, p. 29), it is clear what some of the difficulties are for harassed and fallible humans to act in ways that are gener

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• Foreign Military Intervention by Large and Small Powers 1

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• Controlling Small Wars

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