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Soldiers of reason : the Rand Corporation and the rise of the American empire / Alex Abella.
Author
Abella, Alex
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Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed.
Published/Created
Orlando : Harcourt, Inc., ©2008.
Description
388 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
AS36.R35 A24 2008
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Research institutes
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United States
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History
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20th century
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Military research
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United States
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History
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20th century
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United States
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Intellectual life
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20th century
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United States
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Foreign relations
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1945-1989
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United States
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Foreign relations
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1989-
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United States
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Military policy
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Rand Corporation
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History
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Rand Corporation
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Influence
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Summary note
A chronicle of the rise of the secretive think tank that has been the driving force behind American government for sixty years. Born in the wake of World War II as an idea factory to advise the Air Force on how to wage and win wars, RAND quickly became the creator of America's anti-Soviet nuclear strategy. A magnet for the best and the brightest, its ranks included Cold War luminaries who arguably saved us from nuclear annihilation and unquestionably created Eisenhower's "military-industrial complex." In the Kennedy era, RAND analysts' theories of rational warfare steered our conduct in Vietnam, and drove our invasion of Iraq 45 years later. 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.--From publisher description.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-361) and index.
Contents
1 A Great Beginning 9
2 The Human Factor 24
3 The Wages of Sin 40
4 A Talk Before Dinner 67
5 The Secret Keepers 72
6 The Jester of Death 95
7 In RAND's Orbit 105
8 A Delicate Dance 127
9 Whiz Kids Rule 132
10 The Art of Science 143
11 A Final Solution to the Soviet Problem 158
12 An Irresistible Force 168
13 A Night in Rach Kien 191
14 The Price of Success 195
15 Stealing Away 213
16 Plus Ca Change 217
17 Team B Strikes 230
18 Witnessing End Times 249
19 The Terror Network 262
20 Yoda and the Knights of Counterforce 275
21 Back to Iraq 287
22 Death of a Strategist 299
23 Whither RAND? 304.
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ISBN
9780151010813
0151010811
LCCN
2007030691
OCLC
163707040
International Article Number
9780151010813
Other standard number
40015845533
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