C. Johnson and the "Intellectual" Origins of American Empire

Chalmers Johnson discusses the history and politics of the RAND corp at TD. Though he does not write in a Saidian vocabulary- Johnson's analysis of RAND as a handmaiden to American power dovetails quite nicely with Edward Said's legendary analysis of the relationship between power and knowledge in his 1978 book, Orientalism. However, Johnson is unwilling to concede that what RAND produces can actually granted the ontological status of "knowledge." For Johnson, what RAND produces is much more akin to propaganda for the powerful.