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开 本: 32开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9780156033442
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Praise for SOLDIERS OF REASON
“Well-researched… Kudos to Abella.”–San Francisco
Chronicle
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
ferreting out details… Abella’s book is an introduction to the
broad range of ideas RAND has espoused.”–Chalmers Johnson, Asia
Times
内容简介
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.
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.
目 录
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
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