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Human Terrain System: Video on YouTube
CultureTube has produced a video shown on YouTube (added in December of 2007) that deals with the subject of research ethics and anthropologists in the Human Terrain System. The video as a whole makes… more »
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Human Terrain System: Video on YouTube
Maximilian Forte wrote 1 day ago: CultureTube has produced a video shown on YouTube (added in December of 2007) that deals with the su … more »
HTS Researcher Killed in Afghanistan
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Maximilian Forte wrote 6 days ago: Despite my repeated criticisms of the Human Terrain Systems work that involves social scientists, an … more »
Anthropology and Global Counterinsurgency: Paper Abstracts
Maximilian Forte wrote 4 weeks ago: Anthropology and Global Counterinsurgency is the title of a very interesting conference that is abou … more »
Reviewing the AAA's Report on Anthropology and the Military
Maximilian Forte wrote 1 month ago: About four months ago I promised to produce an essay/notes reviewing and summarizing the 04 Novembe … more »
More News on Anthropology and Counterinsurgency
Maximilian Forte wrote 1 month ago: As an addendum to the last bundle of posts for today, more news is being published about American a … more »
American Anthropologists against Counterinsurgency: Part Two
Maximilian Forte wrote 1 month ago: On 04 December, 2007, I posted the first part of this review of postings collected on the blog dedi … more »
A key to the power of FM 3-24, the new COIN manual
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Fabius Maximus wrote 1 month ago: (later additions to the text are in red) FM 3-24 provides a basis for DoD’s people to desc … more »
If we reject the dogs of war then surely we will not accommodate their fleas
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Maximilian Forte wrote 4 months ago: I have been reflecting back on some of the muddy double-speak to be found in the late parts of the … more »
Of Mirror Images, Fanatics, and Cartoon Characters: Militarizing Anthropology
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Maximilian Forte wrote 5 months ago: It struck me, while reviewing the patterns I found in postings to the AAA Executive Board’s b … more »
Recommended Reading
vimothy wrote 5 months ago: Alan Greenspan on The Roots of the Mortgage Crisis in OpinionJournal, in which the former Chairman o … more »
The Narrative of Imperialism: Revisiting the Ugly American (Anthropologist)
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Maximilian Forte wrote 5 months ago: “In Favour of Anthropological Support for Counterinsurgency” (Notes from AAA blog #1) h … more »
Initial Reactions to AAA Report on Anthropologists & Counterinsurgency
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Maximilian Forte wrote 5 months ago: ETHICS CONCEDE TO POLITICS Following the submission on Wednesday, November 28th, 2007, of the re … more »
Engagement of Anthropology with Security and Intelligence Communities
Maximilian Forte wrote 5 months ago: On Wednesday, November 28th, 2007, the Executive Board of the American Anthropological Association … more »
HTS "Anthropologists": Predictable & Contradictory Arguments
Maximilian Forte wrote 5 months ago: I said in a recent post that we could predict responses on the AAA blog from those supporting anth … more »
Fieldwork: Not an Inalienable Right, but an Expendable Rite
Maximilian Forte wrote 5 months ago: Over on the AAA blog, one might get the sense that those anthropologists who support being embedded … more »
"Alleviating Harm": Which Side are Anthropologists Supporting?
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Maximilian Forte wrote 5 months ago: When I ask, which side are anthropologists supporting, I am specifically referring to those anthropo … more »
Bloggers Reacting to the American Anthropological Association's Online Statement
Maximilian Forte wrote 6 months ago: Thanks to Lorenz Khazaleh at antropologi.info for his round up of anthropology bloggers’ reac … more »
Empty Scholasticism at its Best on the AAA Blog
Maximilian Forte wrote 6 months ago: Having read through over 60 comments posted thus far on the blog of the American Anthropological As … more »
Anthropologists React to the AAA Statement on the Ethics of Counterinsurgency Research
Maximilian Forte wrote 6 months ago: Readers can quickly see the comments being posted by anthropologists, predominantly American, rangin … more »
