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 ↩︎
