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RED HERRING | Nation Failure Warning System
by lclough at 11:36 pm EDT, May 18, 2005

] there are parts of the world where Washington very much
] wants to be able to predict when a nation will slip into
] a condition of lawless failure.
]
] To that end, DARPA, the Pentagon%u2019s extreme science
] division, is doling out about $500,000 to BAE and a trio
] of Massachusetts Institute of Technology professors to
] develop software that could model the circumstances that
] give rise to nation-state failure and collapse.

This would be very useful if it could be used to pinpoint
interventions that would prevent the final melt-down into
chaos.

RE: RED HERRING | Nation Failure Warning System
by Decius at 11:59 pm EDT, May 18, 2005

lclough wrote:
] ] there are parts of the world where Washington very much
] ] wants to be able to predict when a nation will slip into
] ] a condition of lawless failure.

Methinks there are some strange attactors in THAT system! Best of luck to them but as they say on Wall Street, if it was that easy we'd all be rich....