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Andrew Marshall (foreign policy strategist)

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433:, predicted that 'catastrophic' shortages of water and energy supply would become increasingly harder to overcome, plunging the planet into war by 2020. Schwarz and Randall further claimed that major European cities would be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a 'Siberian' climate by 2020. At the time of the report's publishing, it became notable for its link to Marshall and its accusations that leadership of the Pentagon purportedly "covered up" the report for four months until it was obtained by the British weekly 475:, "There was every reason for Marshall to expect that Chinese modes of thought would be even more alien to American ways of thinking than the Soviet leadership's had been, and that some insight into the thinking of China's political and military leaders could be gleaned from surveying open source writings. Pillsbury's work on China, which Marshall had encouraged and supported since the early 1970s, illustrates both points." According to 31: 512:(R-TX) announced his death during a hearing, saying, "I can think of fewer people who have had a bigger impact of focusing our defense efforts, our national security, in the right direction than Mr. Marshall. He has been before our committee I don’t know how many times over the years. So I wanted to note that passing, but also to honor his memory because he made such a difference." 424:
In 2003, Marshall commissioned a report for the Pentagon predicting that abrupt climate change could bring the planet to the edge of anarchy as countries develop a nuclear threat to defend and secure dwindling food, water and energy supplies. The report, authored by
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Marshall has been noted for fostering talent in younger associates, who then proceed to influential positions in and out of the federal government: "a slew of Marshall's former staffers have gone on to industry, academia and military think tanks."
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obituary about Marshall stated, "He had an uncanny ability to pick out only the most significant questions, then to drill down deeply," Pillsbury, a colleague of 45 years, said in an interview. "He developed an iconoclastic, contrarian image."
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and personally oversaw the creation of the Office of Net Assessment where Marshall would become the first director. The original main task of the office was to provide strategic evaluations on nuclear war issues.
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edited by Jeffrey S. McKitrick and Robert G. Angevine (Jaffrey, NH : Andrew W. Marshall Foundation; Alexandria, VA : Institute for Defense Analyses, 2022). 331 pp.
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After electing to defer his studies in favor of eventually pursuing a Ph.D. in statistics (a program not yet offered by the University of Chicago), Marshall joined the
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in 1949. While he would briefly return to academia to cover Wallis's courses during the 1953-1954 term and continued to take statistics courses at
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Andrew Marshall was consulted for the 1992 draft of Defense Planning Guidance (DPG), created by then-Defense Department staffers
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March 26, 2019, obituary of Marshall, "His gift was the framing of the question, the discovery of the critical question," said
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Biography about Andrew W. Marshall from the view of net assessment capability and disability with near-peer comparison
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and received the second-highest score on a citywide aptitude test for honors students similar in provenance to the
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named Marshall one of its 2012 Top 100 Global Thinkers, "for thinking way, way outside the Pentagon box".
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exhaustively. Our great hero was Andy Marshall in the Pentagon. We translated every word he wrote.
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The Last Warrior: Andrew Marshall and the Shaping of Modern American Defense Strategy
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The Last Warrior: Andrew Marshall and the Shaping of Modern American Defense Strategy
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The Last Warrior: Andrew Marshall and the Shaping of Modern American Defense Strategy
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Marshall, A. W. (1950). "A Test of Klein's Model III for Changes of Structure".
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Reflections on Net Assessment : Interviews with Andrew W. Marshall,
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The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America
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in economics from the institution in 1949. His master's thesis was a
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Andrew Marshall funded and published three best selling books by
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with graduate standing in 1945; under the chancellery of
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The Formation of Econometrics: A Historical Perspective
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for a year, he dropped out to take a position at the
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Office of Net Assessment
Richard Nixon
Gerald Ford
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
George H. W. Bush
Bill Clinton
George W. Bush
Barack Obama
James H. Baker
Detroit, Michigan
Alexandria, Virginia
University of Chicago
University of Detroit
Wayne State University
University of Chicago
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George Washington University
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United States Department of Defense
Office of Net Assessment
President
Richard Nixon
James H. Baker
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Michigan
Cass Technical High School
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