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30 Mar 09
The U.S. military's quest to weaponize culture | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
- Two initiatives: HTS and Project Minerva - khodok on 2008-07-11
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The first is the Human Terrain Team system, to which Gates allocated $40 million in September 2007
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The Pentagon plans 26 Human Terrain Teams--one for each combat brigade in Iraq and Afghanistan. The five-person teams include three military personnel. Each team also includes an anthropologist--or another social scientist--who will wear a military uniform and receive weapons training. Described as doing "armed social work" by David Kilcullen, an Australian expert in counterinsurgency who advises Gen. David Petraeus in Iraq, the teams elicit information from villagers for Pentagon databases and provide cultural orientation to U.S. military leaders.
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11 Jul 08
Archaeologists to refuse help over possible Iran strike - being-human - 10 July 2008 - New Scientist
Dartmouth College : Laboratory For Human Terrain
It's all Electrical Engineering professors for some extraordinary reason.
19 Dec 06
The New Yorker: PRINTABLES
KNOWING THE ENEMY by GEORGE PACKER Can social scientists redefine the “war on terror”?
BBC NEWS | UK | England | London | Forgeries 'used to fund terror'
Profits from fake relics "exported by the tonne load" from the Middle East are finding their way into the hands of terrorists, according to police.
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