Foreign Affairs Perspectives of United States Business and Military Elites, 1973

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Label

Foreign Affairs Perspectives of United States Business and Military Elites, 1973

Creator

• Russett, Bruce M
• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]

Contributor

• Hanson, Elizabeth C.

Author

• Russett, Bruce M
• Hanson, Elizabeth C.

Contributor

• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]

Subject

• Vietnam War, 1961-1975
• armed forces
• business elites
• communist threat
• defense policy
• domestic policy
• economic aid
• event
• foreign affairs
• foreign aid
• foreign policy
• international conflict
• international relations
• Cold War
• media coverage
• military intervention
• military officers
• military operations
• military strategies
• peace
• political attitudes
• social conflict
• survey
• war
• intervention
• Economic assistance
• International relations
• Intervention (International law)
• Military policy

Genre

• survey
• event

Summary

This study explored perspectives and sources of opinions about United States foreign policy among American business and military elites. The data collection includes information obtained from surveys of military and business elites, as well as content analysis of articles on American intervention abroad published in business and military journals. Military officers (Part 1) and senior business executives (Part 2) were asked about causes of war, prospects for peace, the most serious domestic and international problems faced by the United States, and possible solutions to these problems. Respondents' views on military and economic aid, defense spending, maintaining troops overseas, and the presence of ground troops in Vietnam were also assessed. Of the survey variables, 62 are common to the military and business officials. A limited number of separate questions were also asked of each individual group. Part 3 contains variables coded from content analysis of articles published in military and business journals, focusing on the authors' attitudes toward various acts of political, diplomatic, or military intervention as well as economic sanctions. Also explored were the apparent reasons for such attitudes, whether economic, strategic, or ideological. The study sought to identify patterns of media responses that might account for the formation of, or changes in, opinions among business or military circles