{"id":12488,"date":"2014-10-22T09:00:29","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T16:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=12488"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:04:18","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:04:18","slug":"pentagon-preparing-for-mass-civil-breakdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/pentagon-preparing-for-mass-civil-breakdown","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon preparing for mass civil breakdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"blog-byline-kick\"><a class=\"contributor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/profile\/nafeez-ahmed\" rel=\"author\">Nafeez Ahmed<\/a><\/span> \u2014 The Guardian<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>A US Department of Defense (DoD) <a title=\"More from the Guardian on Research\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/research\">research<\/a> 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 <a title=\"More from the Guardian on US military\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/us-military\">US military<\/a> agencies. The multi-million dollar <a href=\"http:\/\/minerva.dtic.mil\/cois.html\">programme<\/a> is designed to develop immediate and long-term \u201cwarfighter-relevant insights\u201d for senior officials and decision makers in \u201cthe defense policy community,\u201d and to inform policy implemented by \u201ccombatant commands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Launched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2008\/12\/earlier-this-1\/\">in 2008<\/a> \u2013 the year of the global banking crisis \u2013 the <a href=\"http:\/\/minerva.dtic.mil\/funded.html\">DoD \u2018Minerva Research Initiative\u2019<\/a> partners with universities \u201cto improve DoD\u2019s basic understanding of the social, cultural, behavioral, and political forces that shape regions of the world of strategic importance to the US.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/earth-insight\/2014\/jun\/12\/pentagon-mass-civil-breakdown\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nafeez Ahmed \u2014 The Guardian 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 \u201cwarfighter-relevant insights\u201d for senior officials [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1490,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense","category-government","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12488"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64886,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12488\/revisions\/64886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}