Two very different, but related, items have been published online this past week, related to the Human Terrain System and embedding anthropologists/social scientists in counterinsurgency. The first one I mention–unsurprisingly published by the Small Wars “Journal” –is written by Andrew Garfield of Glevum Associates, a private defense contractor that we have encountered here many times […]
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“The need now is to get a decent contracting company in there that is actually focused on the job and they just might prove some worth as a force multiplier.” On 22 September 2010 The U.S. Army Contracting Command Center at Fort Eustis posted a Sources Sought request (fbo.gov) to support the U.S. Army Human […]
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Human Terrain Teams Feared more than CIA: Cureton Blinded for Life, Laurie Adler Returns by John Stanton 12 May 2010 …You have no sense about the intriguing world of intelligence gathering! I am dead scared of a Peace Corps…Team wanting to help a strategically important country affected by a natural disaster [rather] than a CIA […]
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UPDATED: 03 March 2010; 17 March 2010; 19 March 2010; 22 March 2010; 26 April 2010; 03 June 2010; 05 June 2010; 30 November 2010; 10 June 2011; 30 September 2011; 03 March 2013 By Maximilian C. Forte At least 37 corporations have vested interests, through contracts gained, in supporting the U.S. Army’s Human Terrain […]
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Some interesting reports have surfaced over the past three weeks concerning initiatives with links to the U.S. Army’s Human Terrain System (HTS), along with reports about control exercised over U.S. journalists, both of which come under the rubric of public propaganda (what proponents call “public diplomacy” and others call “strategic communications”). Gary Langer of ABC […]
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This is John Stanton’s ninth article on the Human Terrain System, coming on a day when already one prominent endorsement of the program has been withdrawn (see today’s earlier post here). As usual, a copy (see below) is being posted for this blog, with the author’s kind permission. Of critical importance is the fact revealed […]
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The following is a list of all articles published on ZA, starting from the latest article to appear: Containment and Expropriation: Lockdowns, Public Health, and the Scrap Iron Industry in Trinidad & Tobago Submission to Canada’s Public Order Emergency Commission Why did the Left Fail the Covid Test So Badly? Nuremberg, Covid, and Anthropology: Never […]
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