More critically, Wikner advised Lukasik to name the study something so bureaucratically obscure that no one would notice it. “If we had called this Project Smart Kill, it would have been dead in the water,” Lukasik joked. “I’m not sure whether Congress would have killed it, or the services would have killed it, or someone up in the Office of the Secretary of Defense would have killed it.” In 1973, Lukasik signed off on the Long Range Research and Development Planning Program, or LRRDPP, an unpronounceable acronym tailor made not to appear in a Washington Post headline or be spotted by an
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