A 'Marshall Plan' For African Wildlife
In America's modern monolithic science culture, when a desired plan of action is advocated, they call for a 'Manhattan Project of' whatever they are seeking. It's not a great analogy. It reminds people that the last real government science success was 70 years ago and feels rather militant, since the goal of the Manhattan Project was to blow enemies to smithereens. Yet after World War II, America changed from building bombs to use against enemies to building cities for former enemies - in Europe, that was called the Marshall Plan, named after government management whiz G.C. Marshall, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army from 1939 to 1945, who went on to become an international statesman as well. University of Minnesota researcher Craig Packer read more