Soldiers of Reason: The Rand Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire - Softcover

Abella, Alex

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156033445 ISBN 13: 9780156033442

Publisher: Mariner Books, 2009

Synopsis

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-...

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Review:

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

About the Author:

ALEX 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0156033445
• ISBN 13: 9780156033442
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400