Table of Contents
Prologue 5
Part I The Cold War
Chapter 1 The Evil Thing 11
Chapter 2 War Games and Computing Machines 28
Chapter 3 Vast Weapons Systems of the Future 46
Chapter 4 Emergency Plans 60
Chapter 5 Sixteen Hundred Seconds Until Doomsday 76
Chapter 6 Psychological Operations 92
Part II The Vietnam War
Chapter 7 Techniques and Gadgets 117
Chapter 8 RAND and COIN 133
Chapter 9 Command and Control 145
Chapter 10 Motivation and Morale 160
Chapter 11 The Jasons Enter Vietnam 181
Chapter 12 The Electronic Fence 197
Chapter 13 The End of Vietnam 213
Part III Operations Other Than War
Chapter 14 Rise of the Machines 237
Chapter 15 Star Wars and Tank Wars 259
Chapter 16 The Gulf War and Operations Other Than War 270
Chapter 17 Biological Weapons 284
Chapter 18 Transforming Humans for War 305
Part IV The War on Terror
Chapter 19 Terror Strikes 319
Chapter 20 Total Information Awareness 336
Chapter 21 IED War 353
Chapter 22 Combat Zones That See 367
Chapter 23 Human Terrain 386
Part V Future War
Chapter 24 Drone Wars 405
Chapter 25 Brain Wars 420
Chapter 26 The Pentagon's Brain 439
Acknowledgments 453
Notes 457
List of Interviews and Written Correspondence 503
Bibliography 507
Index 537