A Pentagon commissioned $400,000 RAND study, Enlisting Madison Avenue: The Marketing Approach to Earning Popular Support in Theaters of Operation, concludes “the ‘force’ brand, which the United States peddled for the first few years of the occupation, was doomed from the start and lost ground to enemies’ competing brands.”
Army, iraq, show of force, brand, identity, [...]

Posted September 17, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Dispatches, Politics & Controversy. Tags: Army, brand, identity, iraq, military operations, RAND, report, show of force. One Comment.

Steffan O’Sullivan writes:
“This is from a 1954 edition of Modern Mechanics Magazine, predicting what the home computer will look like in 2004. I think I worked on that printer once…
How can I get a steering wheel like that on my office computer here?”
The caption reads:
“Scientists from the RAND Corporation have created this [...]

Posted November 22, 2004 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: 1950s computer prediction, 1954, 1954 2004 computer, computer, computer steering wheel, fake, fark computer photoshop, home computer, modern mechanics, RAND, scientists from the rand corporation. 3 Comments.