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Counter-Counterinsurgency Manual

by Catherine Lowe Besteman

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First published: 2009 1 language ISBN: 9780979405747
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Critiques the Pentagon's Counterinsurgency Field Manual, which offered a blueprint for mobilizing the cultural expertise of anthropologists for the war in Iraq. Explores the ethical and intellectual conflicts of the Pentagon's Human Terrain System, and probes the increasing militarization of academic knowledge.
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Counterinsurgency United States Moral and ethical aspects Evaluation Military policy Anthropology Militarism United States. Army. Human Terrain System Anthropological ethics Military intelligence

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