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him to do that, he needed to set
up a (cybernetic) monitoring infrastructure.

The nation's banks, factories and industrial companies.

It would have given Allende maximum control over the nations
industrial infrastructure, real-time monitoring of everything.

Everything had a computer monitoring it.

* "The Future of War - Power, Technology, and American World Dominance in
* the 21st Century", by George & Meredith Friedman, 1996, ISBN 0-517-70403-X
*
* McNamara's revolution built on an idea that was central to operations
* research and propounded by many nuclear strategists, that war was not
* methodologically distinguishable from economics. The process whereby you
* analyzed, managed, and controlled an economy was not essentially different
* from the way you managed a war, except that one was an economy of produc-
* tion and the other was an economy of force. The principal underlying both
* was the doctrine of efficiency: maximizing the benefits received from the
* efforts and expenditures---a cost benefit analysis.