Honors Thesis Explores Both Security Policy and a Grandfather’s Legacy

“Leading Dove in Vietnam Era,” was the headline of the 2001 obituary of former Pentagon official Paul Warnke in the New York Times. Later that year in a special appreciation Bill Keller of the Times refined that remembrance to say that Warnke’s “subspecies was the intellectual dove.” In his honors thesis for the Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies degree, recent Middlebury Institute graduate Paul S. Warnke MANPTS ‘18, Warnke’s grandson and namesake, took a deep dive into the strategic policy debate between his grandfather and Albert Wohlstetter on the pages of Foreign Policy, exploring it in the context of the social and political backdrop in which it took place.