Overseas military labs extend US influence beyond purely scientific purposes.
Evidence
The military also maintains a large collection of research laboratories overseas. Given the CIA’s use of a fake childhood vaccination campaign to help locate and kill Osama bin Laden, it is doubtful that all these research activities are purely scientific. At the very least, they constitute another way the Pentagon builds military-to-military ties, gains influence, and broadens the U.S. military presence abroad. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 636
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- CANDY: The fake vaccination campaign to locate bin Laden is a striking, conversation-ready detail.
- SEED: Could seed an essay on how ‘scientific’ overseas programs covertly serve military-intelligence functions.
Related
- Overseas military labs build influence and are not purely scientific (similarity 0.80)
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