By summer of 1965, the army had offered the project to the Special Operations and Research Office ( SORO ) at the American University of Washington DC . The full name of the project was "'Methods for Predicting and Influencing Social Change and Internal War Potential "'
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Sources in the US government admitted that the purpose of this was the " ultimate destruction of the war potential of German forests . " Extensive deforestation due to clear-felling resulted in a situation which could " be replaced only by long forestry development over perhaps a century . ".
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In February, lawmakers began discussing whether to rewrite the constitution after years of public debate focusing on the so-called " peace clause "-- Article 9-- which declares that Japan will never maintain " land, sea and air forces as well as other war potential ."
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Sources in the U . S . government admitted that the purpose of this was that the " ultimate destruction of the war potential of German forests . " As a consequence of the practice of clear-felling, deforestation resulted which could " be replaced only by long forestry development over perhaps a century ."
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Sources in the U . S . government stated that the purpose of this was the " ultimate destruction of the war potential of German forests . " As a consequence of the practiced clear-felling, extensive deforestation resulted which could " be replaced only by long forestry development over perhaps a century . ".
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The Constitution's Article 9 states : " The Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes . . . . Land, sea and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained.
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Article 9 says that Japan forever renounces war, stating, " Land, sea and air forces as well as other war potential will never be maintained . " KenzaburM Le, one of the nine founders of the Article 9 Association, spoke at the group's national rally in Tokyo in November 2011, which drew about 700 people.
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_RESTRICTIONS : Japan's constitution, written by American authorities after Tokyo's surrender ended World War II, bans the " threat or use of force as a means of settling international disputes " and bars this country from maintaining " land, sea and air forces, or other war potential " to that end.
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Aspiring sincerely to an international peace based on justice and order, the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes . 2 ) In order to accomplish the aim of the preceding paragraph, land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained.
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The 20-member conservative isolationist wing of the party, based in the rural Midwest, was led by Senator Kenneth S . Wherry and argued that it would be " a wasteful'operation rat-hole'"; that it made no sense to oppose communism by supporting the socialist governments in Western Europe; and that American goods would reach Russia and increase its war potential.
