Not 1500, but 2000000.
RAND Corporation (RAND) is the most prestigious decision-making consulting organization in the United States, ranking first among the top ten super think tanks in the world. It has about 1000 employees, 500 of whom are experts in various fields. Rand Corporation influences and influences the decision-making of a series of major events in American politics, economy, military affairs and diplomacy.
1950, at the beginning of the Korean War, RAND Company concentrated a lot of money and manpower to study the attitude of the China government, and reached a seven-word conclusion: "China will send troops to North Korea", which was sold to the Policy Research Office of China in the United States for 5 million dollars (equivalent to the price of a state-of-the-art fighter). The research results are accompanied by 380 pages of data, and the national conditions of China are analyzed in detail, and it is concluded that once China sends troops, the United States will undoubtedly lose. Officials at the China Policy Research Office in the United States believe that RAND Corporation is blackmailing, which is nonsense.
Later, General MacArthur, who came back from the Korean battlefield, said with emotion: "Our biggest mistake was to give up tens of billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of American soldiers' lives, but we were stingy with the price of a fighter plane. "
Afterwards, the US government spent $2 million to buy back this outdated report.
The words "China will send troops to Korea" are priceless. How many details did RAND research to summarize the 380-page data?