Intelligence Failure: A Conversation with Herbert Meyer, Part 1

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Power Line:

Steven Hayward

September 26, 2014

 

We’ve featured the wisdom of Herbert Meyer before on Power Line (and he has a new article on the subject of political persuasion out right now that I want to discuss over the weekend), here and here on the end of the Cold War, for example. I got to spend some time with Herb in person recently, and I brought Power Line’s video production crew with me to record some of it. My sound turned out poorly, but Herb is crystal clear. This first installment is about 10 minutes long. I’ll roll out some other portions of our conversation over the next few days. (And don’t forget to check out Herb’s books and other materials at his site, StormKingPress.com.)

 

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“We Are Going To Win the Cold War”—A Conversation with Herbert Meyer, Part 3
Steven Hayward
October 18, 2014

In this installment of our conversations with Herbert Meyer (part one here, and part two here), we look back at the end of the Cold War, and especially Herb’s prescience in a memo he wrote in the fall of 1983, since declassified, entitled “Why Is the World So Dangerous?” (PDF link). Here he remarks that this memo was not just controversial, but also unwelcome even among many hard-liners in the foreign policy establishment. (My sound turned out very poor; what’s important is Herb’s sound, not mine, so bear with this.)