Warner R. Schilling
[2] He married the former Jane Pierce Metzger in 1951[1] (she had been a teacher of economics who co-authored the 1954 book The Impact of Strikes and would later serve as editor for some of the Institute of War and Peace Studies' published works).
[10] An influential work,[11] two decades later, John Lewis Gaddis commented that it was still the "classic discussion" of defense spending during that period.
Art has labeled Schilling, along with contemporaries Richard Neustadt, Roger Hilsman, and Samuel Huntington, as part of the "first wave" of scholars of foreign policy making.
[13] He was also co-author of American Arms and a Changing Europe: Dilemmas of Deterrence and Disarmament (1973) and co-editor of European Security and the Atlantic System (1973).
[17][18][19] (Off campus, the politics of any of these "conservatives" was often anything but, and they were uncomfortable with such labels when their goal as they saw it was simply the restoration of order in American and European academies.
[19] That evening, he spoke to a large gathering of like-minded students and faculty at Wollman Auditorium and gained applause after proclaiming, "if Mark Rudd is still at Columbia in the fall, I will not be.
[20] He was one of several professors to propose that the faculty themselves cordon off Low Library to prevent free entry and exit of the demonstrators and seize the university identification cards of those leaving.
[24] His appearance in Japan in 1969 to discuss the impact of MIRV warheads on the strategic nuclear balance was covered in the Yomiuri Shimbun.
[9] Schilling made a number of media appearances, including on Edward R. Murrow's Hidden Revolution radio series in 1959, where he described the effects of a surprise Soviet nuclear attack on the United States;[26] on National Educational Television's debate-style Court of Reason in 1963, to discuss Western alliance policy regarding nuclear weapons;[27] appearances on the nationally distributed Columbia Lectures in International Studies, for instance in 1964 to talk about "The Likelihood of Limited War";[28] on New York local television station news and public affairs programs to discuss international events;[29] and on the CBS Morning News in 1982 to discuss the ongoing Falklands War.
[2] Each year, while observed by a university security officer, he brought an unloaded, World War I-era rifle to class to allow students to physically imagine what using it in battle would be like.
"[34] In a 2003 profile by The Christian Science Monitor, Schilling said that students were more oriented towards academic careers than they had been in years past, but were less knowledgeable about history and geography and less personally vulnerable to decisions about war and peace.
[22][35] After his death, unfinished works of his – regarding assassination as an instrument of foreign policy, and his interviews and conclusions regarding the aforementioned H-bomb decision – were published in collaboration with other authors and scholars.
