Wired's DangerRoom blog has been following a strange and somewhat spooky story for that past few months. In September 2007, they posted an item about how in search of better tactics for conducting an insurgency, the military was turning to social scientists for conducting field research in Afghanistan and Iraq in order to understand who might side or join a militant or terrorist group. Since then they have posted a number of additional ...
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