... negating viewpoints. Eventually one of the paradigms must prevail and it is the newer one, with the younger adherents, that experiences such success over the old paradigm, who's advocates simply "retire and die off" (p.567). To substantiate his claims he looks at two paradigms: The Pearl Harbor (Munich) paradigm and the Vietnam paradigm. It is very important to know that Roskin views the ... paradigms as if they have a natural life, by which they have a "birth, a period of growth, and a death" (p.567). The birth is characterized by swelling criticism for the old approach or paradigm and...

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