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Edward Herman, “The New Economics: Handmaiden of Inspired Truth,”
Review of Radical Political Economics, Aug. 1972.
77. Cited by Gaddis, Strategies of Containment, 204.
78. See the analysis of Soviet power by the Center for Defense Information
(Defense Monitor, January 1980), concluding that it peaked in the late
1950s, declining since in capacity to coerce and influence. The absolute
power to destroy, of course, constantly increases, for both superpowers
and others as well.
79. See Fred Bergsten, Foreign Affairs (July 1971), on Kennedy’s concern
for developing new markets for Japan.
80. Harold Brown, Report to Congress on the budget and defense programs,
Jan. 29, 1980; NSC 141, cited by Kaplan, Wizards of Armageddon,
137-8.
81. Walter Pincus, WP Weekly, Oct. 7, 1985.
82. Alfred Chandler, Joseph Monsen, Daedalus, Winter, 1969; Wilson
quoted in Richard Barnet, The Economy of Death (Atheneum, 1969),
116.
83. Gaddis, Strategies of Containment, 93-4, 204.
84. Felix Rohatyn, Interview, World Policy Journal (Fall 1984).
85. “From Cold War to Cold Peace?”
86. On the concerns over economic stagnation at that time, and the reasons
for the recourse to military Keynesianism as a way out, see Kolko, Main
Currents, 317-8.
87. Robert Reich, “High Tech, a Subsidiary of Pentagon Inc.,” NYT, May 29,
1985.
88. Business Week, April 8, 1985.
89. “Pentagon Spending is the Economy’s Biggest Gun,” Business Week,
Oct. 21, 1985.
90. Economist, Sept. 7, 1985; Le Monde, April 9, 1985 (MG Weekly, April
28, 1985).
91. Samuel Downer, quoted by Bernard Nossiter, WP, Dec. 8, 1968.
92. Stephen Daly, NYT, Sept. 9, 1985; on the differential response to such
atrocities depending on who is the perpetrator, see my “Notes on