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More copies of this ISBNThis title in other editionseBook editionsSoldiers of Reason: The Rand Corporation and the Rise of the American Empireby Alex Abella
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Born in the wake of World War II, RAND quickly became the creator of Americas anti-Soviet nuclear strategy. A magnet for the best and the brightest, its ranks included Cold War luminaries such as Albert Wohlstetter, Bernard Brodie, and Herman Kahn, who arguably saved us from nuclear annihilation and unquestionably created Eisenhowers "military-industrial complex." 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. But RANDs 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. With Soldiers of Reason, Alex Abella has rewritten the history of Americas last half century and cast a new light on our problematic present. Synopsis:This history of the RAND Corporation, written with full access to its archives, is a page-turning chronicle of the rise of the secretive think tank that has been the driving force behind the American government for 60 years.
About the AuthorALEX ABELLA is the coauthor, with Scott Gordon, of Shadow Enemies: Hitler's Secret Terrorist Plot Against the United States and the author of four novels. He has also been a contributing writer to the Los Angeles Times. Born in Cuba, he lives in Los Angeles. Table of ContentsContents Foreword 1 Part 1 1 A Great Beginning 9 2 The Human Factor 24 3 The Wages of Sin 40 Part 2 4 A Talk Before Dinner 67 5 The Secret Keepers 72 6 The Jester of Death 95 7 In RANDs Orbit 105 Part 3 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 Part 4 13 A Night in Rach Kien 191 14 The Price of Success 195 15 Stealing Away 213 16 Plus Ça Change 217 17 Team B Strikes 230 Part 5 18 Witnessing End Times 249 19 The Terror Network 262 20 Yoda and the Knights of Counterforce 275 21 Back to Iraq 287 Part 6 22 Death of a Strategist 299 23 Whither RAND? 304 Acknowledgments 313 Endnotes 315 Bibliography 345 Index 363 What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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