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successfully in the past; the Commission study did not, however, 

 similarly address congressional planning requirements. What, specific- 

 ally, are the parallel requirements of executive and legislative branches? 

 Stated in simplest form, they are — as anticipated in the essay on 

 "Initiative Versus Reactive Foreign Policy" — (1) a strong information 

 base, accompanied by policy analysis and technology assessment 

 capabilities of the highest competence ; and (2) institutionalized capa- 

 bilities for both short- and long-range planning in support of foreign 

 policy, so arranged as to maintain the integrity of the long-range 

 planning function while insuring that it performs its role in a dynamic 

 relationship to the policymaking function and to the real world. 



Discussion of these requirements in the essay on Planning, keyed to 

 analytical review of Issue Six ("Science and Technology in the Depart- 

 ment of State"), is further developed in chapter 24, "Some Concluding 

 Observations." 



