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Soldaten der Vernunft: Die RAND Corporation und der Aufstieg des amerikanischen Imperiums
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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0156033445
ISBN-13
9780156033442
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70959658
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Book Title
Soldiers of Reason : the Rand Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2009
Topic
Military Science, Public Policy / Military Policy, Economic History, United States / 20th Century, International Relations / General, United States / 21st Century, Government & Business, United States / General
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Political Science, Technology & Engineering, Business & Economics, History
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Trade Paperback
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13 Oz
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8 in
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5.3 in
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22
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Insightful...Writing with remarkable clarity, Abella skillfully dissects the world-view of the RAND leading lights...Abella has written an outstanding book on the history of the RAND Corporation and the flawed reasoning and 'expert' analysis that has driven forward an imperialistic foreign policy since World War II., Rollicking' is not the kind of adjective one would expect to describe a study of a defense policy think tank. Thus it is to Alex Abella's considerable credit that much of his new book, Soldiers of Reason: The RAND Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire, is often a lot of fun to read., Praise for SOLDIERS OF REASON "Well-researched... Kudos to Abella."--San Francisco Chronicle "[R]evealing and original... Abella does an excellent job ferreting out details... Abella's book is an introduction to the broad range of ideas RAND has espoused."--Chalmers Johnson, Asia Times --, Praise for SOLDIERS OF REASON "Well-researched... Kudos to Abella."--San Francisco Chronicle "[R]evealing and original... Abella does an excellent job ferreting out details... Abella's book is an introduction to the broad range of ideas RAND has espoused."--Chalmers Johnson, Asia Times, Praise for SOLDIERS OF REASON "Well-researched... Kudos to Abella."--San Francisco Chronicle "[R]evealing and original... Abella does an excellent job ferreting out details... Abella's book is an introduction to the broad range of ideas RAND has espoused."--Chalmers Johnson, Asia Times , Praise for SOLDIERS OF REASON"Well-researched... Kudos to Abella."--San Francisco Chronicle"[R]evealing and original... Abella does an excellent job ferreting out details... Abella's book is an introduction to the broad range of ideas RAND has espoused."--Chalmers Johnson, Asia Times, An entertaining and fast-paced account...Abella excels...in his descriptions of the colorful characters who populated RAND., Praise for SOLDIERS OF REASON "Well-researched... Kudos to Abella."--San Francisco Chronicle "[R]evealing and original... Abella does an excellent job ferreting out details... Abella's book is an introduction to the broad range of ideas RAND has espoused."--Chalmers Johnson, Asia Times
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Table Of Content
Contents 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 RAND's 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
Synopsis
Born in the wake of World War II, 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 such as Albert Wohlstetter, Bernard Brodie, and Herman Kahn, who arguably saved us from nuclear annihilation and unquestionably created Eisenhower's "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 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. With Soldiers of Reason, Alex Abella has rewritten the history of America's last half century and cast a new light on our problematic present.
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