Vietnam Intervention: Systematic Distortion in Policy-Making Expanded from the article published in 1976 in Armed Forces and Society to correct typographical errors and to add an epilogue, not published with the original article due to space limitations, here appended following page 396 of the original published text. American Foreign Policy: Playing Chicken with History Contemporaneous evocation of the type of "theoretical considerations" repudiated by ARPA contractor Institute for Defense Analyses, in the form of a gentle critique of my Harvard international relations instructor in 1963, Professor Henry Kissinger.