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America’s Defense Associations: Key Elements in US Security and War Machinery

With the Washington Post’s series on Top Secret America (a Pulitzer Prize for summarizing what everyone already knew) hitting the streets, it’s appropriate to take a quick look at a few of the national security non-profits that operate betwixt and between the public and private sectors, many holding their own classified briefings and conferences. These […]

Georgia Tech Ends Relationship with U.S. Army’s Human Terrain System

This latest information just came in via email from John Stanton, who asked that it be posted immediately: “I have spoken with our team and have learned that Georgia Tech has requested to end its involvement in this program [HTS] after the current contract period. For further information you will need to contact the government […]

100 percent (Militarized) American

[If anything, this is long overdue, and surprising that it did not come from an anthropologist first — not that the professional designation ought to be taken too seriously, especially as a lot of good anthropological work on issues of great public significance is now done by many non-anthropologists. I am speaking here of Nick […]