The Pentagon's brain

Contents: 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.