November 30, 2007
Enabling the Kill Chain
Anthropology, long the handmaiden of empires, is once again being called upon to assist with warfare, this time in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere in the "war on terror." The U.S. military, the CIA, and some other government agencies and military contractors are recruiting a small but growing number of anthropologists and other social scientists to provide cultural knowledge and analysis, ethnographic research, and what the military calls "human-terrain mapping" to bolster counterinsurgency
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