Strategypage reports on US forces relying on databases and dataveillance to fight Iraqi insurgents.
"Marne Torch" reports that, after six weeks, 1,152 buildings were searched, 83 terrorists killed, 278 arrested or captured (depends on if they were armed and shooting when caught), 51 weapons caches found, 51 terrorist boats (used to move men and weapons via water) destroyed and 872 suspects entered into the electronic database.
The size is huge. If the article is right, and the db now has "nearly half a million people entered in it so far" out of a population around 27.5 million, is this the highest coverage of a modern population? Total Information Awareness in version 2? Think of the implications of applying this data war approach to the corruption problem Strategypage goes on to describe.
(via Instapundit)
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