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Table of contents :
Cover
TUG OF WAR
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction: Satellites and Surveillance Capitalism
1 “A Permanent State of ‘Cold War’”: Preparing the Environment, 1940–1968
PART ONE THE TECHNOLOGY ENTHUSIASTS
2 “Our Knowledge Is in the Holes”: Software Consulting and the Sweat-Equity Formula, 1968–1977
3 “Innovation in a Cold Climate”: Remote Sensing and the Government Contracting Paradigm, 1971–1980
4 “Two Things Went Wrong at Once”: Financial Crises, Mythical Man-Months, and the Near-Death Experience, 1975–1981
PART TWO THE INVESTOR-BUSINESS STRATEGISTS
5 “Unscrambling the Mess”: Financial Restructuring, Management Discipline, and the Military Contracting Formula, 1981–1987
6 “The Systems Vision Was Too Hard”: Investor Strategies, Product Development, and the Demise of the Manufacturing Vision, 1982–1988
7 “One Amorphous Mass”: Systems Integration, Strategic Planning, and the Search for Liquidity, 1988–1993
PART THREE THE SYSTEMS INTEGRATORS
8 “This Company Will Be Sold”: MDA’s Public Offering, Orbital’s Acquisition, and the Dot-Com Bust, 1993–2001
9 “Shades of Grey”: 11 September 2001, the Homeland Security Bubble, and Canada’s Sovereignty Imbroglio, 2001–2008
10 “A Lucky Escape”: The Great Recession, Property Information Divestment, and the Acquisition of a Critical Mass in Satellite Manufacturing, 2009–2012
Conclusion: “Unseen, in the Background”: A View from the Security State
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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