15. Our Permanent Warfare Economy
Given what we know of the defense and intelligence establishment, and what they are capable of – both in terms of their technological achievements and in terms of their propensity to overt and covert terrorism – it would be unreasonable to dismiss the importance of programs like SHEBA in developing the database and computer models – at the very least – for ENMOD applications. Again, ENMOD objectives are not an afterthought, but the raison d”etre of such programs, no matter the extent to which they have already achieved operational capabilities, and we cannot for certain say anything about that extent, except that it may be far more comprehensive and horrible than this writing suggests.
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