The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research AgencyDiscover the definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, in this Pulitzer Prize finalist 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. |
Contents
Vast Weapons Systems of the Future | |
Emergency Plans | |
Sixteen Hundred Seconds Until Doomsday | |
Psychological Operations | |
Techniques and Gadgets | |
RAND and COIN | |
The Gulf War and Operations Other Than | |
Biological Weapons | |
Transforming Humans for | |
Terror Strikes | |
Total Information Awareness | |
IED | |
Combat Zones That | |
Human Terrain | |
Command and Control | |
Motivation and Morale | |
Discover More | |
The Jasons Enter Vietnam | |
The Electronic Fence | |
The End of Vietnam | |
Rise of the Machines | |
Star Wars and Tank Wars | |
Drone Wars | |
Brain Wars | |
The Pentagons Brain | |
Acknowledgments | |
A Preview of Phenomena | |
List of Interviews and Written Correspondence | |
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