Foreign Military Studies Office

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The Foreign Military Studies Office, or FMSO, is a research and analysis center for the United States Army. It is based in Fort Leavenworth and manages the Joint Reserve Intelligence Center there.

[edit] Mission

The main purpose of FMSO is to perform analysis focused on asymmetric threats.

[edit] Operation Iraqi Freedom Documents

Through the site, the US government made publicly available the Operation Iraqi Freedom Documents - some 55,000 boxes of documents, audiotapes and videotapes relating to the government of Saddam Hussein, seized during the Iraq invasion in 2003. However, in early November 2006, the entire set of documents was apparently removed. Media reports stated that the website was taken offline because the documents included sophisticated diagrams and other information detailing nuclear weapon design that could be useful to anyone wishing to construct a nuclear weapon.