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Counter-Counterinsurgency Manual

Counter-Counterinsurgency Manual

Catherine Lowe Besteman

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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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OL16504546W

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CounterinsurgencyUnited StatesMoral and ethical aspectsEvaluationMilitary policyAnthropologyMilitarismUnited States. Army. Human Terrain SystemAnthropological ethicsMilitary intelligenceConscientious objectorsApplied anthropologyIraq War, 2003-HistoryIraq War, 2003-2011InsurgencyPhilosophySocial sciences

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