mitigatedchaos:

ranma-official:

afloweroutofstone:

The Rand Corporation has done more than basically any group in the twentieth century to shape what kind of world we’re living in now, and they’re weirdly unrecognized for that

the fact they’re responsible for the MAD nuclear deterrence doctrine alone is mind boggling

Did you know they were aware that the Iraq War would be, well, more like it actually was and less lile the Bush administration thought it would be? Which is less impressive by itself, but more impressive relative to the cluelessness of various other US government institutions.

After that, I began to wonder if government quality could be improved by replacing the legislature with think tanks.

back in the waybefore times of bringing light to the people via hyperlinked essays, on Everything2, one of my favorite noders was a RAND guy, kinda filled the same slot for me The War Nerd later did