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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.
From Simon & Schuster, The Great American is Alex Abella's romantic novel about a young revolutionary. Involved in a romance with Laura, a young revolutionary, Ohio Marine William Morgan, stationed in pre-Castro Havana, becomes caught up in the turbulent struggle against Batista, only to be faced with disillusionment, loss, and betrayal in the aftermath of Castro's triumph.
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