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The United States Forest Service (USFS) is an American government agency within the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).
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]
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 ↩︎