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American Counterinsurgency
Roberto J. Gonzalez
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Description for American Counterinsurgency
Paperback. The $60 million Human Terrain System (HTS), an intelligence gathering program that embeds social scientists with combat brigades in Iraq and Afghanistan, dramatically illustrates the approach. This pamphlet critiques HTS, showing how the history of anthropology can be used to illuminate the problems of turning 'culture' into a military tool. Num Pages: 134 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHMC; JWKT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 178 x 114 x 13. Weight in Grams: 666.
Politicians, pundits, and Pentagon officials are singing the praises of a kinder, gentler American counterinsurgency. Some claim that counterinsurgency is so sophisticated and effective that it is the 'graduate level of war'. Private military contracting firms have jumped on the bandwagon, and many have begun employing anthropologists, political scientists, psychologists, and sociologists to help meet the Department of Defense's new demand. The $60 million Human Terrain System (HTS), an intelligence gathering program that embeds social scientists with combat brigades in Iraq and Afghanistan, dramatically illustrates the approach. But when the military, transnational corporations, and the human sciences become obsessed with ... Read more
Politicians, pundits, and Pentagon officials are singing the praises of a kinder, gentler American counterinsurgency. Some claim that counterinsurgency is so sophisticated and effective that it is the 'graduate level of war'. Private military contracting firms have jumped on the bandwagon, and many have begun employing anthropologists, political scientists, psychologists, and sociologists to help meet the Department of Defense's new demand. The $60 million Human Terrain System (HTS), an intelligence gathering program that embeds social scientists with combat brigades in Iraq and Afghanistan, dramatically illustrates the approach. But when the military, transnational corporations, and the human sciences become obsessed with ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC United States
Number of pages
134
Condition
New
Number of Pages
134
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9780979405747
SKU
V9780979405747
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About Roberto J. Gonzalez
Roberto J. Gonzalez is associate professor of anthropology at San Jose State University. He is the author of Zapotec Science: Farming and Food in the Northern Sierra of Oaxaca and editor of Anthropologists in the Public Sphere: Speaking Out on War, Peace, and American Power.
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