The people's war concept and civil war in China in the estimates of the RAND corporation experts (analytical frame of research)

Turn to the historical cases has not only academic, but also political significance. And their interpretations within the framework of expert support of foreign policy activities encourage the analysis of this decision-making aspect to be more attentive and cautious than methodological constraints, disciplinary filters, intellectual climate and relations with the customer of analytical products. In this regard the article focuses on the characteristics of the expert support of the decision-making process in the United States at the beginning of the Cold War in the context of the activities of the RAND Corporation, which worked closely with the Ministry of Defence and practically monopolized the analytical support of American policy in the South-East Asia in the organization of counterinsurgency during the 1960-s. The focus of research is on methodological approaches and principles of analysis of the perspectives of the transfer of the Chinese model of the people’s war by the RAND experts - typical discussions about the export of the democratic and socialist models of development during the Cold War often leave this issue of the history of international relations after 1945 on the periphery of scientific discussion.