"Project Camelot was conceived by
the Special Operations Research
Office-Soro-of the American
University in Washington, DC.
In the Words of
Lieutenant General W. W.Dick Jr.
Chief of Army Research and
Development:
the development of the concept
for Camelot was begun in early 1964
as a result of a review by the
office of the chief
of research and development
of the research program concerned
with internal conflict and insurgency.

This revealed that there was a very incomplete
knowledge and understanding in depth of the internal cultural, economic, and political
conditions that generate conflict
between national groups...
The central idea was to develop a
study that would us teh systems
analysis approach to stydying internal war."
Source:Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists May 1966
A Journal of Science and Public Affairs
Board of Sponsors
Robert Oppenheimer
and Albert Einstein
Educational foundation for Nuclear
science Chicago, Illinois
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"Success in such tasks as
equipping and training indigenous
forces for an internal security mission,
civic action, psychological warfare,
or other counterinsurgency
action depends on a thorough
understanding of the indigenous
social structure, upon the accuracy
with which changes within the indigenous
culture, particularly violent changes,
are anticipated, and the effects of
various courses of action available
to the military and other agencies
of government upon the indigenous
process of change."
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The origin of the name "Camelot"
came from a book by T.H. White,
The Once and Future King