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Gun Running, Drugs, and Flamenco: U.S. Army Human Terrain System Has it All

May 24, 2010 by

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Readers Note: Due to the gravity of the allegations/information below, I immediately submitted the information provided by sources to the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The FBI was mentioned in the information provided and so it was entirely appropriate to contact/inform them of these allegations. “Confirmed,” said sources. A member of the US Army… [Read more…]

Human Terrain System Criticized by U.S. Congress

May 21, 2010 by

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The U.S. House of Representatives Armed Services Committee (HASC) has issued a criticism of the Human Terrain System, limiting its funding until the U.S. Army can submit a formal review that addresses “certain concerns.” (Thanks as well to “Napkin Chagnon” for the update.) In a document titled, “H.R. 5136 – Nation Defense Authorization Act for… [Read more…]

Imperial Instruction: The Human Terrain System’s Academic Trainers, Part 2

May 20, 2010 by

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…continued from Part 1 HTS’ Other Handlers There are those trainers who are not attached to either UNO or the University of Kansas as faculty. One of these, someone who for a while was a student in my department (before I arrived), is Dr. Liam D. Murphy, an anthropologist at California State University-Sacramento, who by… [Read more…]

Imperial Instruction: The Human Terrain System’s Academic Trainers, Part 1

May 20, 2010 by

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As part of the series designed to “map the terrain” of war corporatism, beginning with charting the private corporations contracted by the Human Terrain System (HTS), corporations with military, intelligence, and other specializations, then examining the various other human terrain efforts outside of HTS, and then generally considering how anthropologists and other social scientists have… [Read more…]

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