News Analysis: Pentagon's New Social-Science Program Stirs Old Anxieties

By David Glenn

In September 1965, not long after news reports spotlighted a controversial Pentagon-sponsored program to study social conflict in South America, the Social Science Research Council played host to a meeting on overseas research.

Feelings were raw. Opposition to the Vietnam War was mounting, and many scholars worried that the Pentagon's research on conflict and counterinsurgency would bring all overseas researchers under suspicion as agents of American military power. According

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Anthropology Association Urges Government to Tread Cautiously With 'Minerva' Project - May 27, 2008
Minerva Takes Flesh: Pentagon and Science Foundation Sign Social-Science Deal - June 30, 2008
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New Details of 'Minerva' Project Emerge, as Social Scientists Weigh Pentagon Ties - May 12, 2008
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