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the work of the Naval War College and the Naval Postgraduate
School. The Program will lead to a Master of Arts in Strategic
Studies. It is a 44 quarter-hour program which counts your
work here with grades of B or above as 18 quarter-hours. The
rest of the 26 remaining hours will be completed in 6 after-
hour off-campus courses. These courses will be offered this
year (we hope) beginning in Washington, D.C., and later in
Norfolk and San Diego. It is the PG School who will hire the
professors. Costs are expected to be covered by VA benefits.
Within the 26 remaining hours there is also an allowance for
substitution of 12 quarter-hours of work of appropriate courses
taken at third institutions. These are graduate-level courses
taken either prior to attendance at Newport or subsequently.
The program applies to all resident students regardless of the
branch of Service and including civillians who have graduated
since the present curriculum was established in 1972, meaning
the classes of 73, 74, 75, 76 and 77, plus you and later classes.

Today you will receive in your student mail boxes a blue
folder giving some details about the program. We
cannot tell you all until the Postrgraduate School decides
exactly when first classes will be held. Professor Hartmann
is handling the remaining details. He is in Monterey now. The
CNO has approved it. So much for the announcement. We'll wait
for PG School coordination before we print it in any publications.

I think your course should give you some contact with the
practitioners in the art of military science, strategy and
politics. Again, as an announcement of sorts, Helmut Sonnenfeldt
is coming here to spend several two or three-day periods on the
campus (maybe, half a dozen) as a Bates Fellow and Lecturer.
As you know, he was Henry Kissinger's European expert. He is
now on the faculty at Johns Hopkins. He is going to write a
formal speech and give another one. He hopes to engage in many
face-to-face contacts with small groups of you, including
CAR's project people.

There is another announcement of sorts that you may have
heard about. The annual Current Strategy Forum this year is
scheduled for late March, moved up in time for several reasons,
particulary for the convenience of the student body. We will
have as speakers, the Secretary of the Navy, either the CNO or
one of the Fleet Commanders, hopefully Brzezinski from the
administration (we haven't asked him yet) plus a forum of
OPNAV and OSD Seniors. It will last about 2 1/2 days. One of
the purposes is for you to meet our guests, some 250 people,
depending on how many accept. I hope that you are naturally
and seriously enthusiastic abour what goes on at CSF. I think
it provides a big payoff to the War College, to yourselves, and
particularly to the reputation of this Navy. The audience, the
guests we invite, are people of substance and experience in the
fields we are discussing. They are also people of influence;

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