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Book Chapter
Conclusion
2022
Overview
This concluding chapter reviews how system analysis had eclipsed net evaluation, looking at the establishment of the Defense Department's Office of Net Assessment (ONA). Both ONA and the Net Evaluation Subcommittee (NESC) used qualitative and quantitative methods for their work in a way that was more balanced than the quantitative-heavy systems analysis approach. The differences between the two are also important. Where the NESC measured the worst failure of an existing strategy, ONA considered peacetime competition dynamics. A last parallel, though, is perhaps the strongest: both organizations provided analysis to the key strategic decision-makers of their day. ONA continues its work today, and systems analysis lives on as cost assessment and program evaluation, but the NESC has been largely forgotten. The chapter argues that the NESC deserves restoration to the historical record because it is a vital missing piece of the narrative of US nuclear strategy in the middle of the twentieth century.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Subject
ISBN
9781501766121, 1501766120
