Albert Wohlstetter

Albert Wohlstetter (born 19 December 1913 in New York City; † 10 January 1997 in Los Angeles ) was an American political scientist.

Wohlstetter studied in the 1930s at City College of New York and Columbia University, in the 1940s worked in the war economy. From 1951 to 1963 he was a consultant at the Rand Corporation. He taught at UCLA, he, the University of California, Berkeley, and from 1964 to 1980 as a professor of political science at the University of Chicago. His wife Roberta Morgan Wohlstetter was a well-known military historian and expert on the American secret services.

In Wohlstetter earned his doctorate under other Paul Wolfowitz. With him also studied in 1958 fled from Iraq Shiite opposition Ahmad Chalabi.

The conservative Wohlstetter advised several Democratic and Republican U.S. presidents ( including John F. Kennedy in the Cuban missile crisis ) in military and security matters, where he advocated the limited use of nuclear weapons.