Editing William Kintner

{{Short description|American soldier, foreign policy analyst and diplomat}}
'''William Roscoe Kintner''' (21 April 1915 – 1 February 1997) was an American soldier, foreign policy analyst, and diplomat.

Kintner was born in [[Lock Haven, Pennsylvania|Lock Haven]], [[Pennsylvania]] to Joseph and Florence Kintner, the eighth of nine children.<ref name="piobit">{{citation|url=http://articles.philly.com/1997-02-02/news/25532766_1_memorial-service-ancient-israel-west-point|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304001756/http://articles.philly.com/1997-02-02/news/25532766_1_memorial-service-ancient-israel-west-point|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 4, 2016|title=William R. Kintner, Diplomat|work=[[Philadelphia Inquirer]]|date=February 2, 1997|last=Weiner|first=Jennifer}}</ref> He was appointed to the [[United States Military Academy]] in 1936, and was commissioned a second lieutenant upon graduating in 1940. A career Army officer, he landed at [[Omaha Beach]] for [[Operation Overlord]] during the [[invasion of Normandy]] in 1944. He served during the [[Korean War]] as an infantry battalion commander during the [[Battle of Pork Chop Hill]]. He retired from the U.S. Army as a [[colonel]] in 1961, having earned the [[Bronze Star Medal]] and [[Legion of Merit]], both with [[oak leaf cluster]]s.<ref name="upennalmanac">{{citation|url=http://www.upenn.edu/almanac/v43/n25/deaths.html|title=Deaths: Dr. William Kintner, Ambassador and Scholar|work=University of Pennsylvania Almanac|volume=43|number=25|date=March 11, 1997|accessdate=2015-01-07}}</ref>

While in the service, he earned an M.A. and Ph.D. from [[Georgetown University]] in 1948.<ref name="pacftb">{{citation|url=https://secureapps.libraries.psu.edu/PACFTB/bios/biography.cfm?AuthorID=507|title=Biography for William Roscoe Kintner|author=Pennsylvania Center for the History of the Book|publisher=Center for the Book of the Library of Congress|work=Literary Map of Pennsylvania|accessdate=2015-01-07|archive-date=2010-07-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100709011419/https://secureapps.libraries.psu.edu/PACFTB/bios/biography.cfm?AuthorID=507|url-status=dead}}</ref> His doctoral dissertation, a study of the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]], was published in 1950 as ''The Front is Everywhere''. Upon retiring from the Army, he taught political science at the [[University of Pennsylvania]], where he remained as professor until 1985. He was deputy director of the [[Foreign Policy Research Institute]] until 1969, when he became director.<ref name="pacftb" /> In 1973, President [[Gerald Ford]] appointed him [[United States Ambassador to Thailand|U.S. Ambassador to Thailand]], a post in which he served from 1973 to 1975.<ref name="nyt1997">{{cite web | url = https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0DE7DB133CF93AA35751C0A961958260 | title = W.R. Kintner, 81, Dies; World Affairs Expert | first = Wolfgang | last = Saxon | date = February 9, 1997 | work = New York Times }}</ref> After his diplomatic stint, he returned to Philadelphia in 1975 to serve as president as FPRI and as editor of its journal, ''[[Orbis (journal)|Orbis]]''. In that capacity he initiated a joint project with Soviet Institute for the Study of the United States in Canada which permitted the yearly exchange of top non-governmental scholars despite strained [[Cold War]] [[diplomatic relations]].<ref>[https://archive.org/download/william-r.-kintner-ps-political-science-politics-vol.-30-no.-2-1997-pp.-228-228/william%20r.%20kintner%20%28ps%20-%20political%20science%20%26%20politics%2C%20vol.%2030%2C%20no.%202%2C%201997%29%20pp.%20228%E2%80%93228.pdf "William R. Kintner."] [[Political Science & Politics|''PS: Political Science & Politics'']], vol. 30, no. 2, 1997, p. 228. {{doi|10.1017/S104909650004347X}}.</ref>

In 1986, President Ronald Reagan appointed him to the board of directors of the [[United States Institute of Peace]].

Kintner was a prolific author, writing on foreign policy, arms control, and strategic planning until his death in 1997 of cancer at the age of 81.<ref name="nyt1997"/> He is interred at Bryn Athyn Cemetery in [[Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania]].

==Personal life==
Kintner married Xandree Hyatt in 1940, and the couple had three daughters and a son. Widowed in 1986, he married Faith Child Halterman in 1987.

==Works==
'''Articles'''
* [https://archive.org/download/the-orchestration-of-crisis-by-william-r.-kintner-esquire-may-1959-pp.-59-63/The%20Orchestration%20of%20Crisis%2C%20by%20William%20R.%20Kintner%20%28Esquire%2C%20May%201959%29%20pp.%2059-63.pdf "The Orchestration of Crisis."] ''[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]]'', May 1959, pp.&nbsp;59–63.

'''Books'''
*''The Front Is Everywhere: Militant Communism in Action''. Norman: [[University of Oklahoma Press]], 1950. {{ISBN|978-0819140111}}.<ref>[[Philip Selznick|Selznick, Philip]]. Review of ''The Front Is Everywhere: Militant Communism in Action'', by William R. Kintner. ''[[American Political Science Review]]'', vol. 45, no. 1, 1951, pp. 249–249. {{doi|10.1017/S0003055400061621}}.</ref>
*[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015011057752 ''Atomic Weapons in Land Combat''], with Colonel G.C. Reinhardt (1953)
*''Forging a New Sword, a Study of the Department of Defense'' with Joseph Coffey and Raymond Albright (1958)
*''Protracted Conflict: A Challenging Study of Communist Strategy'', with James E. Dougherty, Alvin J. Cottrell, and [[Robert Strausz-Hupé]] (1959)
*''A Forward Strategy for America'', sequel to ''Protracted Conflict'', with [[Stefan Thomas Possony|Stefan T. Possony]] and Robert Strausz-Hupé (1961) 
*''The New Frontier of War: Political Warfare, Present and Future'' (1962) {{ISBN|978-1258422158}}.<ref>Jacobsen, Harold Karen. Review of ''The New Frontier of War: Political Warfare, Present and Future'', by William R. Kintner. ''[[The Journal of Politics]]'', Vol. 25, No. 2, May 1963, pp. 388-390.</ref>
*''Building the Atlantic World'' (1963) <ref>Jacobsen, Harold Karen. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2127478 Review of ''Building the Atlantic World''], by R. Strausz-Hupé, J. E. Dougherty and William R. Kintne. ''[[The Journal of Politics]]'', Vol. 25, No. 2, May 1963, pp. 388-390. {{doi|10.2307/2127478}}.</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/peacestrategycon0000kint/ ''Peace and the Strategy Conflict''] (1967)
*''The Nuclear Revolution in Soviet Military Affairs'' (1968) {{ISBN|978-0806107721}}
*''Safeguard: Why the ABM Makes Sense'' (1969)
*''The Prudent Case for Safeguard'' (1969)
*''The Uncertain Strategic Balance in the 1970's'' (1969)
*[https://archive.org/details/easterneuropeeur0000kint ''Eastern Europe and European Security''] (1971) {{ISBN|978-0842400121}}
*''Soviet Military Trends: Implications for U.S. Security'', with Robert L. Pfaltzgraff (1971) {{ISBN|9780844710525}}
*[https://archive.org/details/nationalstrategy00kint ''National Strategy in a Decade of Change: An Emerging United States Policy''], with Richard Foster (1973) {{ISBN|9780669904802}}
*''SALT: Implications for Arms Control in the 1970s'' (1973) {{ISBN|978-0822984412}}
*[https://archive.org/details/technologyintern0000kint ''Technology and International Politics: the Crisis of Wishing''] (1975) {{ISBN|9780669942682}}
*''A Matter of Two Chinas: the China-Taiwan Issue in U.S. Foreign Policy'', with John Franklin Copper (1979)
*''Soviet Global Strategy'' (1987) {{ISBN|9780915979202}}
*''Arms Control: the American Dilemma'' (1987) {{ISBN|0-88702-026-7}}
*''The Role of Ancient Israel "Written with the Finger of God": A Swedenborgian Perspective of the History of the Israelites From Abraham to Jesus'' (1996) {{ISBN|978-0533117406}}

== References ==
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2. Thy Will Be Done: The Conquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller & Evangelism in the Age of Oil by Gerard Colby & Charlotte Dennett, Chapter 25 Building The Warfare State, p.&nbsp;370 with references to William Kintner mainly on page 371.

==External links==
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*[http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?r105:22:./temp/~r105pEVaJx:: Tribute to William Kintner]{{Dead link|date=August 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} given by Congressman Jon D. Fox
*[http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt6j49r8z6/ Online Archive of California: Inventory of the William R. Kintner papers, 1951–1986]
*[https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/kintner-william-roscoe U.S. State Department Office of the Historian: William Roscoe Kintner]

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