Weaponizing Anthropology

A chilling look at the intelligence community and its use and abuse of the anthropological field.

Introduction.

PT I: Anthropology, History, War, Ethics & Current Manifestations


1. War is a Force that Gives Anthropology Ethics

2. "The CIA's University Spies: PRISP, ICSP, NSEP & the Big Payback.

3. Silent Coup: How the CIA Welcomed Itself Back on Campus Without Public Resistance.

4. Non-attribution


PT II: Manuals


5. Commandeering Scholarship: The New Counterinsurgency Manual, Anthropology, and Academic Pillaging

6. "The Military 'Leveraging' of Cultural Knowledge: The Newly Available 2004 Stryker Report Evaluating Iraqi Failures."


7. Social Science in Harness: Inside the Minerva Consortium.

8. "The Leaky Ship of Human Terrain Systems: On Reading the Leaked Human Terrain Systems Handbook."


9. On Rendering Cultural Complexities as Stereotype: Anthropological Reflections on the Special Forces Advisor Guide


PT III: Counterinsurgency, Human Terrain Systems & Theory


10. Adapted and updated from: Counterinsurgency's Free Ride.

11. Problems with Counterinsurgent Anthropological Theory: or, by the Time a Military Relies on Counterinsurgency for foreign victory it has already Lost.



12. Human Terrain Whistleblower: John Allison Inside the Belly of the HTS Beastie



13. Working for Robots: Human Terrain, Anthropologists and the War in Afghanistan



14. Afterward.

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