Today's edition of the New York Times features an article on research convened by the Department of Defense's Strategic Multilayer Assessment initiative. The article mentions two of the previous SMA programs that Kalev has worked on, co-authoring the following two articles:
- Leetaru, Kalev and Olcott, Anthony. (2012). Gaps and ways to improve how populations and social groups can be monitored via journalistic and social media to detect fragility. In National Security Challenges: Insights from Social, Neurobiological, and Complexity Sciences. Topical Strategic Multi-Layer Assessment and US Army ERDC Multi-Agency/Multi-Disciplinary White Papers in Support of National Security Challenges.
- Leetaru, Kalev and Ehlschlaeger, Charles. (2014). Modeling the Discourse of Megacities: Assessing Remote Populations in the Non-Western Worlds. In Understanding Megacities with the Reconnaissance, Surveillance, and the Intelligence Paradigm. Topical Strategic Multi-Layer Assessment and US Army ERDC Multi-Agency/Multi-Disciplinary White Papers in Support of National Security Challenges.