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An "entertaining and fast-paced" account of the organization that defines the military-industrial complexâand continues to shape our world today (
The New York Times Book Review).
The RAND Corporation was born in the wake of World War II as a think tank to generate research and analysis for the United States military. It was a magnet for the best and the brightestâand also the most dangerous.
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RAND quickly became the creator of America's anti-Soviet nuclear strategy, attracting such Cold War luminaries as Albert Wohlstetter, Bernard Brodie, and Herman Kahn, who arguably saved us from nuclear annihilationâand unquestionably created the military-industrial complex Eisenhower warned against.
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In the Kennedy era, RAND analysts and their theories of rational warfare steered our conduct in Vietnam. Those same theories drove our invasion of Iraq forty-five years later, championed by RAND affiliated actors such as Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, and Zalmay Khalilzad.
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But RAND's greatest contribution might be its least known: rational choice theory, a model explaining all human behavior through self-interest. Through it RAND sparked the Reagan-led transformation of our social and economic system, but also unleashed a resurgence of precisely the forces whose existence it denied: religion, patriotism, tribalism.
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With Soldiers of Reason, Alex Abella shares a "well-researched" history of America's last half century that casts a new light on our problematic present ( San Francisco Chronicle).
The RAND Corporation was born in the wake of World War II as a think tank to generate research and analysis for the United States military. It was a magnet for the best and the brightestâand also the most dangerous.
Â
RAND quickly became the creator of America's anti-Soviet nuclear strategy, attracting such Cold War luminaries as Albert Wohlstetter, Bernard Brodie, and Herman Kahn, who arguably saved us from nuclear annihilationâand unquestionably created the military-industrial complex Eisenhower warned against.
Â
In the Kennedy era, RAND analysts and their theories of rational warfare steered our conduct in Vietnam. Those same theories drove our invasion of Iraq forty-five years later, championed by RAND affiliated actors such as Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, and Zalmay Khalilzad.
Â
But RAND's greatest contribution might be its least known: rational choice theory, a model explaining all human behavior through self-interest. Through it RAND sparked the Reagan-led transformation of our social and economic system, but also unleashed a resurgence of precisely the forces whose existence it denied: religion, patriotism, tribalism.
Â
With Soldiers of Reason, Alex Abella shares a "well-researched" history of America's last half century that casts a new light on our problematic present ( San Francisco Chronicle).
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraphs
- Foreword
- PART 1
- 1 A Great Beginning
- 2 The Human Factor
- 3 The Wages of Sin
- PART 2
- 4 A Talk Before Dinner
- 5 The Secret Keepers
- 6 The Jester of Death
- 7 In RANDâs Orbit
- PART 3
- 8 A Delicate Dance
- 9 Whiz Kids Rule
- 10 The Art of Science
- 11 A Final Solution to the Soviet Problem
- 12 An Irresistible Force
- PART 4
- 13 A Night in Rach Kien
- 14 The Price of Success
- 15 Stealing Away
- 16 Plus Ăa Change
- 17 Team B Strikes
- PART 5
- 18 Witnessing End Times
- 19 The Terror Network
- 20 Yoda and the Knights of Counterforce
- 21 Back to Iraq
- PART 6
- 22 Death of a Strategist
- 23 Whither RAND?
- Acknowledgments
- Endnotes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Footnotes