Name: Soldiers of Reason: The Rand Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire (en Inglés)
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Author: Abella, Alex
ISBN: 9780156033442

portada Soldiers of Reason: The Rand Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Alex Abella

Editorial

Mariner Books

Año

2009

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

400

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

20.5 x 13.3 x 2.5 cm

Peso

0.38 kg.

ISBN

0156033445

ISBN13

9780156033442

N° edición

Categorías

Estrategia militar para la defensa
Economía política
Historia societaria
Historia militar

Soldiers of Reason: The Rand Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire (en Inglés)

Alex Abella (Autor) · Mariner Books · Tapa Blanda

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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 brightest, its ranks included Cold War luminaries such as Albert Wohlstetter, Bernard Brodie, 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-led transformation of our social and economic system but also unleashed a resurgence of precisely the forces whose existence it denied -- religion, patriotism, tribalism. With Soldiers of Reason, Alex Abella has rewritten the history of America's last half century and cast a new light on our problematic present.