The Pentagon's Brain : An Uncensored History Of Darpa, America's Top Secret Military Research Agency

EAudiobook 2015

Since its inception in 1958, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, has grown to become the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and most controversial military science research and development agency. Created by President Eisenhower to prevent another Sputnik, and to focus primarily on defensive programs against nuclear weapons, the agency--and its imagination and scope--has expanded enormously with each passing yea...

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9781478935483
9781478900313

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Uncensored history of DARPA, America's top secret military research agency

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Electronic reproduction. New York Hachette Audio 2015 Available via World Wide Web

Contents:

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
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
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
The War on Terror. Terror strikes ; Total information awareness ; IED war ; Combat zones that see ; Human terrain
Future war. Drone wars ; Brain wars ; The Pentagon's brain

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