> Mirowski's new book shows how some cold war social democrats came
> within
> the ambit of RAND and the Pentagon.
>
> The neocons seem to revel in state power, not the shrivelled state that
> Friedman and the conservatives want.
It's "game theory" that's tied to the neo-cons isn't it? Herman Kahn via Andrew Marshall.
> How The RMA Defense Plan Is Taking Congress, the Military, And Our
> Citizens Out Of The Picture
>
> Many have been having fun calling Bush's Sec. of Defense Donald
> Rumsfeld "Dr. Strangelove," both for the weird faces he makes during
> his photo ops as well as his weird policy throwbacks to the Cold War.
> Imagine our surprise last week, when we learned from Nicholas Lemann
> in his New Yorker story about Bush and his RMA defense plan, that one
> of the thinkers behind Bush's plan, Herman Kahn, was actually the
> model for Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove character in Kubrick's
> film prediction of world-wide nuclear destruction. The connection
> between Kahn, the original Dr. Strangelove, and Bush is that a
> colleague of Kahn's at the Rand think tank in the 50's was Andrew
> Marshall (now, age 79), Bush's speechwriter on matters of military
> defense and the head of the Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment.
> Indeed, the very conservative and very paranoid Marshall is really the
> man Bush is using to conduct a broad review of the military, not
> Rumsfeld. Indeed, Rumsfeld and his lieutenants, Paul Wolfowitz,
> Richard Armitage, and James Roche, are all protegees of Andrew
> Marshall, and it's Marshall's crackpot cold war scenario that is the
> Bush playbook for our nation's new military strategy. In short, be
> afraid, be very afraid. How in the world has this happened? To get a
> fuller story, you'll have to read Lemann's piece and an overview of
> the available documents. In the meantime, here are a few observations
> to suggest why this subject demands your further attention.
http://www.bushwatch.com/needtoknow.htm
Do they have some connection to Heidegger?
Ted