The Pentagon's brain : an uncensored history of DARPA, America's top secret military research agency
Record details
- ISBN: 9780316371766
- ISBN: 0316371769
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Physical Description:
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viii, 552 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm. - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Little, Brown and Company, 2015.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [457]-536) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The Cold War. The evil thing ; War games and computing machines ; Vast weapons systems of the future ; Emergency plans ; Sixteen hundred seconds until doomsday ; Psychological operations -- The Vietnam War. Techniques and gadgets ; RAND and COIN ; Command and control ; Motivation and morale ; The Jasons enter Vietnam ; The electronic fence ; The end of Vietnam -- Operations other than war. Rise of the machines ; Star Wars and tank wars ; The Gulf War and operations other than war ; Biological weapons ; Transforming humans for war -- The War on Terror. Terror strikes ; Total information awareness ; IED war ; Combat zones that see ; Human terrain -- Future war. Drone wars ; Brain wars ; The Pentagon's brain. |
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