¶ United States Forest Service
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The United States Forest Service (USFS) is an agency of the United States Federal Government within the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).
¶ History
At the request of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Forest Service was commissioned by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) to research the use of forest fire as a military weapon.[1] A report was published in June 1970 and declassified in May 1983.[2]
¶ External links
Jacobsen, A. (2015). The Pentagon’s Brain. Little, Brown. https://books.google.ca/books?id=OYgQBgAAQBAJ&pg=PT172&lpg=PT172&dq=forest+fire+as+a+military+weapon+arpa&source=bl&ots=_zPbRBh3Pa&sig=ACfU3U2tcLnElc1HtKOw2HXL2dqjlEMj0w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjV7t6-r_OAAxWnFTQIHWMXDHAQ6AF6BAgeEAM#v=twopage&q&f=false ↩︎
Chandler, C. C., & Bentley, J. R. (1970, June). Forest Fire as a Military Weapon: Final Report. Defense Technical Information Center; United States Forest Service. https://web.archive.org/web/20230823173504/https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/AD0509724.pdf ↩︎