A US Department of Defense (DoD) research programme is funding universities to model the dynamics, risks and tipping points for large-scale civil unrest across the world, under the supervision of various US military agencies. The multi-million dollar programme is designed to develop immediate and long-term « warfighter-relevant insights » for senior officials and decision makers in « the defense policy community, » and to inform policy implemented by « combatant commands. » […]
Minerva is a prime example of the deeply narrow-minded and self-defeating nature of military ideology. Worse still, the unwillingness of DoD officials to answer the most basic questions is symptomatic of a simple fact – in their unswerving mission to defend an increasingly unpopular global system serving the interests of a tiny minority, security agencies have no qualms about painting the rest of us as potential terrorists. […]
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/jun/12/pentagon-mass-civil-breakdown