My question is WHY is the Army Research Lab investigating and creating models of political legislative bodies at all? Couple that with their musings on the impact of polarization on climate change, the pandemic, and similar seems to me the US Military wants to (already has in my book) INFLUENCE political legislative functions. bad bad bad......
They’ve been doing this ever since WW2. Psyops campaigns on the public and private sectors. At first it was to keep the huge military budgets going even though WW2 had ended. At first the military would frighten the public and politicians with wild claims that the USSR was going to send bombers over. Of course when ICBMs were invented the operations went into overdrive because for the first time the USSR could actually strike the USA. But still there was absolutely no need for the Triad defense. A fleet of boomers would have been quite adequate.
The psyops campaigns have been so effective that still today some people think we don’t have enough nuclear weapons at the ready.