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Social Science and the War on Terror

Very interesting article in The New Yorker on the (finally) increasing influence of non-traditional military methods in the non-traditional non-battlefield of the "war on terror." Looking at the social networks of people in the countries and places where terrorists are coming from is important to figuring out how to function there - militarily or otherwise - since we are often now not fighting these countries themselves but people hiding within them, so we have to work with and use the people there to get our goals accomplished.

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