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ISBN: | 0316371769 (ISBN13: 9780316371766) |
Edition Language: | English |
Literary Awards: | Pulitzer Prize Nominee for History (2016) |

Annie Jacobsen
Hardcover | Pages: 560 pages Rating: 3.89 | 2227 Users | 264 Reviews
Details About Books The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency
Title | : | The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency |
Author | : | Annie Jacobsen |
Book Format | : | Hardcover |
Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 560 pages |
Published | : | September 22nd 2015 by Little, Brown and Company (first published September 1st 2015) |
Categories | : | History. Nonfiction. Science. War. Military Fiction. Technology |
Commentary Toward Books The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency
The definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, from the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51No 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.
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Ratings: 3.89 From 2227 Users | 264 ReviewsEvaluate About Books The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency
I'm not sure whether to be comforted or terrified that we have a team like DARPA in the Pentagon dreaming up all kinds of wild things for the industrial military complex. It's incredibly fascinating history and we'll only learn more about it as time goes on and more stuff gets declassified.I love NF on "relevant history", such as Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA and The Pentagon's Brain - recent events that are going on behind the scenes in my own country. What always makes me hesitate to read them is the political persuasion of the author. I have zero tolerance for bashing. I'm beyond over it.The Pentagon's Brain is not a scathing indictment of either the right's or the left's exploitation of the federal money machine to conduct grand military experiments in third world
Use any adjective that beats UNBELIEVEABLE. I'll use the word Mind blowing. It's hard to believe that this is public information. DARPA is our government's top research/engineering company. Much of its information is classified...this book tells everything but the classified information. At times it's technical, but most of the book is very reader friendly. If only reading one chapter, read chapter 24 entitled "Drone Wars". You will think this has to be sci-fi as you read about the insect-drone

This is a terribly biased (Hollywood/LA Times)version of the amazing stories of ARPA/DARPA achievements and their influences on our world. Most of the stuff in here is well known. I was even involved in some of them. But the whole book is laced with the author's storytelling speculation and extreme liberal bias. Page after page of "ain't it awful". When scientists and engineers push the bounds of knowledge as DARPA still does, there are mistakes. It's always a brave new world. But thank God they
Good overview of various DARPA initiatives, starting with the pre-DARPA Manhattan Project, the gadgets and social science employed in Vietnam, modern network centric warfare, etc. The discussion of artificial intelligence towards the end of the book was particularly enjoyable.Suffers from some discontinuity, but I suppose that's to be expected when trying to tell the history of an ultra secret government organization.
Although it is a necessary evil to prepare for war during peacetime to avoid being caught off guard when an attack comes, I believe there is a great deal of waste and greed happening at the Pentagon, that promotes personal agendas, and that scares me.Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. DARPA is given seemingly unlimited resources for their projects, and for the most part, Congress can't do a darn thing. When they do try to step in and claim foul play, the upper echelons of the
DARPA is an arm of the Department of Defense. It creates future tech for the purposes of war. It works with secrets and a lot of things that might not be cool to know too much about.So Annie Jacobsen is an investigative reporter who was allowed privy to some less secretive secrets. She wrote some other books that I have heard of but have not read yet.The main crux of the book is questioning the moral center of DARPA I suppose. A lot of the main ideas of DARPA have been focused on waging war and
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