Harvard University NROTC - Bravo Zulu Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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3! t t t g x t t '- w'v-hwi'v N t - v.1 . -'-.Qint-W'A'h It wasn't the first time we had been rained out this Spring, but it was the first time in any- one's recollection that the Har- vard Commencement was heid indoors. The Seniors were treat- ed to seeing their own gradua- tion on television in the Junior Common rooms. The Honorable Paul H. Nitze, Deputy Secretary of Defense and former Secretary of the Navy, was the honored guest. An abridgement of his address faces this page. And Chief Noel, true to form, stationed himsehc near the closest exit and ex- changed salutes for dollar bills with the newly-commissioned officers. , . Hie Harvard w Amy, Navy and Air tome Ru 0ft. . Tn - ,0 wU- cserve 19ers ralnmg orps inlts conliauy invite you to attencl their 0 o o 0 V. JOIIlt CommlSSlOIllng Ceremony to he held at the Loch Drama Center on Wednesday morning, June the twelfth nineteen llunJrecl anJ sixEy-eight at half Past eleven dclocL A reception to follow on the Loch terrace iQF-l's .' th . Mwwmmem-vrm WW3 '51 1r!rw'- :h$mfi'h th Wm M- e't e- 1' '

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Excerpts From the Address by the Honorable Paul H. Nitze, Deputy Secretary of Defense You will find, I think, when you leave this institution that you carry away more than a Commission, and more than a diploma. Harvard is a home. And the day will come when you will miss it. The day will certainly come when you will feel very proud of having been here. But, of course, by far the more important consideration is that the day should come when Harvard will feel very proud of having you here. Harvard, I am confident, helped you toughen your minds against the temptation either to simplify, or to be unimpress- ed by facts when they can be found. For that, in a way, is the whole intellectual purpose of a great university: to provide the tools and the environment in which the mind can seek out the substratum of reality and the interrelation of its elements, and not be content with the superficialities. The word on the seal of Harvard is Veritas: truth. It is significant that it is not the word Veritates: truths. One does not come here merely to listen to a litany of verities, or to browse through a catalogue of certitucles. One comes here to learn the painful and persistent process of digging out the truth for oneself. I want to stress these inner dynamics of the learning process because the commission you are going to receive today is a mandate to serve in the Armed Forces with your mind-far more than with your muscle. Military men have traditionally been concerned with the distinction between enemy intentions ,and capabilities. But there is another question which a strategic thinker must solve-a question that might be called the We-They.- Problem It is the problem of clearly identifying the struc- ture of potential adversaries, and those potentially on one's own side-and analyzing carefully the interrelationships between the We's and the They's . ln matters of war and peace-particularly in modern twi- light, unconventional wars that are so largely psychological in character-the precise identification of friend and toe is not always obvious. Perhaps the most manifest manner in which one ought NOT to go about identifying the potential enemy is merely to measure the military capabilities of others, and make no analysis of whether they are really part of the they or can be made a part of the we . A second roaoblock to sensible military planning has been another kind of confusion: it is the confusion between what are our strategic obiectives, and what are our strategic intentions. The point is that it is not enough to have strategic long- term objectives. One must also have the strategic, pragmatic intentions of taking the means necessary to preserve the ultimate possibilities of attaining the obiectives. A third roadblock to sound strategic thinking has again been a manifestation of oversimplifying a complex con- sideration. Military planners must be careful to exercise a precise degree of coherence and logic in allocating national resources to combat readiness. It is clearly-in itself-always better to have a greater capability for a given contingency than a lesser capability. There can be no purely military question about that. But there can very much be-and, in fact, always is-an overall national-interest question about it. The total national interest depends on the national al- location of resources. It may be that in a given contingency, what is needed is not more divisions lot troopsl; but more missiles. Or not more missiles, but more submarines. Or, even conceivably, not massively more military hardware of any sort; but more domestic Opportunity for underpriv- ileged citizens who are chafing under the frustrations of poverty and injustice, which no amount of conventional armament can prevent, or cure. The point is that force levels must always be a rational function of total national goals. It is perfectly true that national survival is primary, and in an actual emergency, survival is clearly pre-emptive of virtually total national resources. But though survival is primary, survival in itself- is for the sake of the Nation's life. The Nation's life must go on, and -thus strategic considerations must not prevent a rational al- location of the resources required for a sound political and economic structure for its citizens. A fourth and final roadblock to sound and strategic thinking is the temptation to oversimplify the careful in- tellectual balance a planner must maintain between boldness and prudence. In a thermonuclear environment, military strategy must be measured with a new standard of pre- cision. Unlimited war is no longer a meaningful military concept, except in the sole context of deterrence. Thus war -to have any possible rational value whatsoever-must be limited. It would, of course, be better if war could be thoroughly eliminated, rather than merely limited. But to limit it is at least a rational step toward reducing its resid- ually irrational nature. Your Commission today is not a mandate to make the madness of conflict more prevalent; it is a mandate to make it more preventable. Your Commission today is not a license to become a purveyor of violence; it is a license to become a preventer of violence. Your Commission today is not a writ and warranty of an America inflamed with aggressive ambitions; it is a writ and warranty of an America dedicated to peaceful purposes. Gentlemen, I congratulate you on your earning and re- ceiving these commissions today. They commit you-and they commit your country-to helping secure a more reasonable, a more rational, a more rewarding life for us all. Thank you, and good morning. 33