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The Economics of National Security: Air Strikes in Vietnam
Proving causality is really hard
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What would Vannevar Bush look like today?
As the role of government in innovation changed, so did our attitudes towards innovators.
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Madeline Zimmerman
American Power Was Built on Cost Overruns
The construction of the Pentagon during WWII has lessons for today.
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Banished Heroes
Our best military heroes were rebels. It's time we honor that.
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A Brief History of Submarine-Launched Nukes
The United States beating the Soviets to the first operational ballistic missile submarine is as much a story of bureaucratic innovation as…
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The Origins of Victory: How Disruptive Military Innovation Determines the Fates of Great Powers
The Origins of Victory details four iconic revolutions in military affairs and draws lessons from each to inform what the U.S. military should be doing…
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Madeline Zimmerman
Freedom’s Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II
Freedom’s Forge is as much an invigorating ode to capitalism in the U.S. during WWII as it is an indictment of centralized planning and Communist labor…
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The Pentagon Wars: Reformers Challenge the Old Guard
I have a thing for the Unsung heroes of history. My favorite protagonists are the humble mavericks who persist in unglamorous toil on a single task for…
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