Full Version Soldiers of Reason: The Rand Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire
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Paperback. Pub Date: 05 May 2009 Pages: 400 Publisher: Mariner Books 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 ightest. Its ranks included Cold War luminaries such as Albert Wohlstetter. Bernard odie. 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-...
Paperback. Pub Date: 05 May 2009 Pages: 400 Publisher: Mariner Books 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 ightest. Its ranks included Cold War luminaries such as Albert Wohlstetter. Bernard odie. 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-...