Killing Us Softly With Their Song
March, 1984
A Reporter's NotebookPlayboy sent me to Washington, D.C., in the fall of 1980 to profile a place called the Center for Defense Information, a politically moderate think tank run by retired admiral Gene La Rocque and other former military men. The idea that high-ranking officers would form an organization that was not right wing by definition was intriguing, and the article I wrote (What You're Not Supposed to Know About the Arms Race, Playboy, June 1981) examined defense issues through the focus...
