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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.

Foreword

PART 1

A Great Beginning

The Human Factor

The Wages of Sin

PART 2

A Talk Before Dinner

The Secret Keepers

The Jester of Death

In RAND's Orbit

PART 3

A Delicate Dance

Whiz Kids Rule

The Art of Science

A Final Solution to the Soviet Problem

An Irresistible Force

PART 4

A Night in Rach Kien

The Price of Success

Stealing Away

Plus ~a Change

Team B Strikes

ALEX ABELLA is the coauthor, with Scott Gordon, of Shadow

Enemies: Hitler's Secret Terrorist Plot Against the United States

and the author of four novels. He has also been a contributing

writer to the Los Angeles Times. Born in Cuba, he lives in Los

Angeles.

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Praise for SOLDIERS OF REASON

"Well-researched... Kudos to Abella."--San Francisco

Chronicle

"[R]evealing and original... Abella does an excellent job

ferreting out details... Abella's book is an introduction to the

broad range of ideas RAND has espoused."--Chalmers Johnson, Asia

Times

书籍介绍

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.