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The Pentagon's brain : an uncensored history of DARPA, America's top secret military research agency / Annie Jacobsen

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2015Edition: First editionDescription: viii, 552 pages : 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780316349475
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 355.070973
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Book Book Greater Project 4 Branch Reference Section Circulation C 355.070973 J17p 2015 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 120432d

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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