Nov 12 2007
Predicting Jihad?
The weather men can’t get it right as it is, now they expect to predict “unrest” Ooookkkk………..
Pentagon Forecast: Cloudy, 80% Chance of Riots
The Pentagon is paying Lockheed Martin to try to predict insurgencies and civil unrest like the weather. It’s part of a larger military effort to blend forecasting software with social science that has some counterinsurgency experts cringing.
Lockheed recently won a $1.3 million, 15-month contract from the Defense Department to help develop the “Integrated Crises Early Warning System, or ICEWS. The program will “let military commanders anticipate and respond to worldwide political crises and predict events of interest and stability of countries of interest with greater than 80 percent accuracy,” the company claims. “Rebellions, insurgencies, ethnic/religious violence, civil war, and major economic crises” will all be predictable. So will “combinations of strategies, tactics, and resources to mitigate [against those] instabilities.”
Hat Tip: Steve Quayle’s World
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