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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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The definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, from the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51 No one has ever written the history of the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and most controversial military science R&D agency. In the first-ever history about the organization, New York Times bestselling author Annie Jacobsen draws on inside sources, exclusive interviews, private documents, and declassified memos to paint a picture of DARPA, or "the Pentagon's brain," from its Cold War inception in 1958 to the present. This is the book on DARPA?a compelling narrative about this clandestine intersection of science and the American military and the often frightening results. |
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United States. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency -- History.
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United States. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. |
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National security -- United States -- History.
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Military art and science -- Technological innovations -- United States.
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History. |
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Military. |
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Nonfiction. |
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Military art and science -- Technological innovations. |
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Military policy. |
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Military readiness. |
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National security. |
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United States -- Defenses -- History.
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United States -- Military policy.
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United States. |
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Electronic books. |
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History.
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Boundless (Digital media service)
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9780316371674 : $90.00 |
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031637167X : $90.00 |
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