The Pentagon's brain : an uncensored history of DARPA, America's top secret military research agency
/ Annie Jacobsen
- First edition
- viii, 552 pages : 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 507-536) and index.
Part I. 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 Part II. 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 Part III. 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 Part IV. The War on Terror Terror strikes Total information awareness IED war Combat zones that see Human terrain Part V. Future war Drone wars Brain wars The Pentagon's brain
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United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency --History
Military research--United States Military art and science--Technological innovations--United States