Hi FL,
You are probably thinking about Operation Camelot, or about the behind the lines strikes into Cambodia and Laos in the late 1960's (I believe it was '68 or '69). OC itself was designed to create predictive social system models that could be used to test out COIN theories and theories of mass psycho-cultural manipulation. Take a look at some of David Price's work in the area, he has accessed most of the documents (his researh is fantastic even if I think his politics is execrable!).
No ! LOLOL. I'll bet half of them were originally from the US and came up during the 1960's.
Honestly, I really dislike the idea of hiring academics based on their secular politics - left or right. The "Academy", it its broad and idealistic sense, should be a place of competing views with a guiding spirit of inquiry - not a PC or right wing ideology farm designed to produce mental clones.
Marc
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