Thomas Schelling, on page 8 of his The Strategy of Conflict (Amazon):
Within the universities, military strategy in this country has been the preoccupation of a small number of historians and political scientists, supported on a scale htat suggests that deterring the Russians from a conquest of Europe is about as important as enforcing the antitrust laws.
Strategy of Conflict was first published in 1960, and clearly matters changed by the second edition in 1980. By the time I was an undergraduate, I took a course in international politics from an old warhorse of a political scientist, who introduced me to game theory, mutually assured destruction, and the other fundamentals of Schelling's theses.
