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100 1 _aJacobsen, Annie
_eauthor
245 1 4 _aThe Pentagon's brain
_b: an uncensored history of DARPA, America's top secret military research agency
_c/ Annie Jacobsen
250 _aFirst edition
264 1 _aNew York :
_bLittle, Brown and Company,
_c2015
300 _aviii, 552 pages : 16 unnumbered pages of plates :
_billustrations
336 _2rdacontent
_atext
337 _2rdamedia
_aunmediated
338 _2rdacarrier
_avolume
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 507-536) and index.
505 0 _aPart I. The Cold War
505 0 _aThe evil thing
505 0 _aWar games and computing machines
505 0 _aVast weapons systems of the future
505 0 _aEmergency plans
505 0 _aSixteen hundred seconds until doomsday
505 0 _aPsychological operations
505 0 _aPart II. The Vietnam War
505 0 _aTechniques and gadgets
505 0 _aRAND and COIN
505 0 _aCommand and control
505 0 _aMotivation and morale
505 0 _aThe Jasons enter Vietnam
505 0 _aThe electronic fence
505 0 _aThe end of Vietnam
505 0 _aPart III. Operations other than war
505 0 _aRise of the machines
505 0 _aStar Wars and tank wars
505 0 _aThe Gulf War and operations other than war
505 0 _aBiological weapons
505 0 _aTransforming humans for war
505 0 _aPart IV. The War on Terror
505 0 _aTerror strikes
505 0 _aTotal information awareness
505 0 _aIED war
505 0 _aCombat zones that see
505 0 _aHuman terrain
505 0 _aPart V. Future war
505 0 _aDrone wars
505 0 _aBrain wars
505 0 _aThe Pentagon's brain
610 _aUnited States
_bDefense Advanced Research Projects Agency
_xHistory
650 _aMilitary research
_zUnited States
650 _aMilitary art and science
_xTechnological innovations
_zUnited States
942 _2ddc
_cBOOK