William Roscoe Kintner

Background

William Kintner was born on April 21, 1915 in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, United States. He was a son of Joseph and Florence Kintner, the eighth of nine children in the family.

Education

Kintner was appointed to the United States Military Academy in 1936, and was commissioned a second lieutenant upon graduating in 1940. He also earned a Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Georgetown University in 1948.

Career

A career Army officer, Kintner 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. Kintner retired as a colonel in 1961, then embarked on a second career as an educator and adviser. He was an authority on world affairs, serving stints on the planning board in the Office of the Secretary of Defense and as a liaison with the Central Intelligence Agency. He also served as a foreign policy Planner for Richard Nixon.

His work as an educator included duty at the University of Pennsylvania’s Foreign Policy Research Institute. He also served as the Institute’s director and president.

He rounded out his career as the U.S. Ambassador to Thailand in the early 1970s. However, after his diplomatic stint, he returned to the Foreign Policy Research Institute , where he served as president from 1975 to 1982, and as editor of its journal, Orbis.

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

Achievements

• Kintner is particularly known for his works The Front Is Everywhere, Peace and The Strategy Conflict, The Impact of President Nixon’s Visit to Peking on International Politics, A Matter of Fwo Chinas (with J. Copper), Soviet Global Strategy, Arms Control: The American Dilemma, and The Crucial Struggle over Central America.
  
  For his military service he earned the Bronze Star Medal and Legion of Merit, both with oak leaf clusters.

Works

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  • SALT: Implications for Arms Control in the 1970s

    (A collection of original essays dealing with many aspects...)

    1973
  • A Forward Strategy for America

    ("A sequel to the authors' "Protracted Conflict" (October,...)

    1961
  • Forging a new sword,: A study of the Department of Defense, (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for International Studies. American project series)

    (Book is used and has been withdrawn from service from a L...)

    1958
  • Matter of Two Chinas: The China-Taiwan Issue in the United States Foreign Policy

    (The China-Taiwan Issue in U. S. Foreign Policy.)

    1979
  • The New Frontier of War: Political Warfare, Present and Future
  • Strategy and Values: Selected Writings (Institute book series of the Foreign Policy Research Institute) 1975
  • Eastern Europe and European security (A Foreign Policy Research Institute book) 1971

Connections

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.

Father:

Joseph Kintner

Mother:

Florence Kintner

First wife:

Xandree Hyatt

Second wife:

Faith Child Halterman