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About the Author
Annie Jacobsen is a journalist and the author of the New York Times best-sellers Area 51 and Operation Paperclip. A graduate of Princeton University, she lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two sons.
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CONTENTS
Cover
Title Page
Welcome
Dedication
Epigraph
Prologue
PART I
THE COLD WAR
Chapter One: The Evil Thing
Chapter Two: War Games and Computing Machines
Chapter Three: Vast Weapons Systems of the Future
Chapter Four: Emergency Plans
Chapter Five: Sixteen Hundred Seconds Until Doomsday
Chapter Six: Psychological Operations
PART II
THE VIETNAM WAR
Chapter Seven: Techniques and Gadgets
Chapter Eight: RAND and COIN
Chapter Nine: Command and Control
Chapter Ten: Motivation and Morale
Chapter Eleven: The Jasons Enter Vietnam
Chapter Twelve: The Electronic Fence
Chapter Thirteen: The End of Vietnam
PART III
OPERATIONS OTHER THAN WAR
Chapter Fourteen: Rise of the Machines
Chapter Fifteen: Star Wars and Tank Wars
Chapter Sixteen: The Gulf War and Operations Other Than War
Chapter Seventeen: Biological Weapons
Chapter Eighteen: Transforming Humans for War
PART IV
THE WAR ON TERROR
Chapter Nineteen: Terror Strikes
Chapter Twenty: Total Information Awareness
Chapter Twenty-One: IED War
Chapter Twenty-Two: Combat Zones That See
Chapter Twenty-Three: Human Terrain
FUTURE WAR
Chapter Twenty-Four: Drone Wars
Chapter Twenty-Five: Brain Wars
Chapter Twenty-Six: The Pentagon’s Brain
Photos
Acknowledgments
Also by Annie Jacobsen
Notes
List of Interviews and Written Correspondence
Bibliography
About the Author
Newsletters
Copyright
Copyright
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