THE PENTAGON'S BRAIN by Ms. Annie Jackson:
Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2026 8:54 pm
Thursday
04.23.2026
3:54 p.m.,
Chicago, Illinois time:
Dear Global Forum Members and Readers:
THE PENTAGON'S BRAIN - AN UNCENSORED HISTORY OF DARPA, AMERICA'S TOP SECRET MILITARY RESEARCH AGENCY,
2015, by Ms. Annie Jacobsen.
Annie Jacobsen is the author of the NEW YORK TIMES bestsellers AREA 51 and OPERATION PAPERCLIP. She was a
contributing editor THE Los Angeles Times Magazine and is a graduate of Princeton University.
"A fascinating and sometimes uneasy exploration of the Defense Advance Research Project Agency."
Dina Temple-Raston, Washington Post.
"Annie Jacobsen has a gift for unearthing secret, long buried information."
Mary Ann Gwinn, Seattle Times.
"In this penetrating history of the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and most controversial
military science R&D agency, Annie Jacobsen draws on inside sources, exclusive interviews, private documents,
and declassified memos to paint a picture to 'the Pentagon's Brain' from its Cold War inception in 1958 to present."
"This is the essential book on DARPA - a compelling narrative about the clandestine intersection of science and
the American military and the entire jaw-dropping, futuristic, and frightening research."
"In this fascinating and terrifying account, Annie Jacobsen regales us with the stories behind the agency's
'consequential and sometimes Orwellian' innovations, including automomous weapons systems - killer robots
that could decide, without human intervention, who lives and who dies."
Bryan Schatz, Mother Jones
"Unsettling...Jacobsen's ability to objectively tell the story of DARPA, not to mention its murky past, is truly
remarkable , making for a terrifically well crafted treatise on the agency most American know next to nothing
about."
Publishers weekly
My Commentary: Authors, interviewers, researchers, producers, writers, etc., of JFK, MX, MLK, RFK, the
Oklahoma Bombing, 09.11.2001, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Russia, Ukraine,
etc., etc., are mostly totally unfamiliar with DARPA - the DEFENSE ADVANCE RESEARCH PROJECT AGENCY.
No serious pursuer of knowledge of the above matters from 1958 to the present Undeclared War with Iran,
where the U.S. instigated a Preemptive Strike, can truly appreciate and understand even a scintilla of what
THE PENTAGON'S BRAIN and The Deep State are currently all about, past, present and future.
Killer Robots who could decide who lives or dies without human intervention takes me back to the original
1951 movie THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL with Michael Rennie as Klattu, Sam Jaffe as Professor Jacob
Barnhardt, and Joseph Lockard "Lock" as GORT the self-autonomous robot.
Ignorance Is Not Bliss as you will discover about DARPA.
thoughts...
best...
bb.
04.23.2026
3:54 p.m.,
Chicago, Illinois time:
Dear Global Forum Members and Readers:
THE PENTAGON'S BRAIN - AN UNCENSORED HISTORY OF DARPA, AMERICA'S TOP SECRET MILITARY RESEARCH AGENCY,
2015, by Ms. Annie Jacobsen.
Annie Jacobsen is the author of the NEW YORK TIMES bestsellers AREA 51 and OPERATION PAPERCLIP. She was a
contributing editor THE Los Angeles Times Magazine and is a graduate of Princeton University.
"A fascinating and sometimes uneasy exploration of the Defense Advance Research Project Agency."
Dina Temple-Raston, Washington Post.
"Annie Jacobsen has a gift for unearthing secret, long buried information."
Mary Ann Gwinn, Seattle Times.
"In this penetrating history of the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and most controversial
military science R&D agency, Annie Jacobsen draws on inside sources, exclusive interviews, private documents,
and declassified memos to paint a picture to 'the Pentagon's Brain' from its Cold War inception in 1958 to present."
"This is the essential book on DARPA - a compelling narrative about the clandestine intersection of science and
the American military and the entire jaw-dropping, futuristic, and frightening research."
"In this fascinating and terrifying account, Annie Jacobsen regales us with the stories behind the agency's
'consequential and sometimes Orwellian' innovations, including automomous weapons systems - killer robots
that could decide, without human intervention, who lives and who dies."
Bryan Schatz, Mother Jones
"Unsettling...Jacobsen's ability to objectively tell the story of DARPA, not to mention its murky past, is truly
remarkable , making for a terrifically well crafted treatise on the agency most American know next to nothing
about."
Publishers weekly
My Commentary: Authors, interviewers, researchers, producers, writers, etc., of JFK, MX, MLK, RFK, the
Oklahoma Bombing, 09.11.2001, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Russia, Ukraine,
etc., etc., are mostly totally unfamiliar with DARPA - the DEFENSE ADVANCE RESEARCH PROJECT AGENCY.
No serious pursuer of knowledge of the above matters from 1958 to the present Undeclared War with Iran,
where the U.S. instigated a Preemptive Strike, can truly appreciate and understand even a scintilla of what
THE PENTAGON'S BRAIN and The Deep State are currently all about, past, present and future.
Killer Robots who could decide who lives or dies without human intervention takes me back to the original
1951 movie THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL with Michael Rennie as Klattu, Sam Jaffe as Professor Jacob
Barnhardt, and Joseph Lockard "Lock" as GORT the self-autonomous robot.
Ignorance Is Not Bliss as you will discover about DARPA.
thoughts...
best...
bb.