Honestly, that book was pretty meh. I liked Schlosser’s earlier work, but you could have summed up command and control in about 40 pages. I’d recommend “Soldie

Honestly, that book was pretty meh. I liked Schlosser’s earlier work, but you could have summed up command and control in about 40 pages. I’d recommend “Soldiers of Reason”, which is about the RAND corporation and the thought process behind the madness. Hearing about how military bureaucracy does stupid and incompetent things is a given… understanding how a lunatic like LeMay was in charge of and restrained from initiating a global apocalypse is more enlightening, if not terrifying.