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20
2010

Part 2 focuses on the work of various academics who train members of the U.S. Army's Human Terrain System, and then closes with a discussion of the (lack of) ethics in anthropological support for counterinsurgency.

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Part 1 focuses on the University of Nebraska at Omaha's Center for Afghanistan Studies, and the "Afghanistan Immersion Seminars," in addition to the work of Bart Dean and Felix Moos at the University of Kansas, in making anthropology more imperialist.

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  • Government backs idea to train spies on college campuses
    • Max Forte
      Max Forte on 2010-01-07

      This is the the headline that a subsequent editorial in the very same newspaper later repudiated for its use of the straightforward term "spies" - as if the graduates will not do intelligence gathering (and analysis) for the CIA, when that is what they are meant to do.

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  • "We're not interested in teaching our soldiers what to think but how to think," he said. "We're asking them to challenge assumptions and ask why."
    • Max Forte
      Max Forte on 2010-01-07

      If they wanted free thinkers, and critical minds, they wouldn't want soldiers, or commanders.

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