Nicole Suveges – ZERO ANTHROPOLOGY

Iraqi Insurgents Capture Human Terrain System Member: John Stanton

Iraqi Insurgents Capture Human Terrain Team Member: Issa T. Salomi by John Stanton Sunday, 07 February 2010 Steve Fondacaro and Montgomery Carlough, senior program management of the US Army’s Human Terrain System (HTS), were warned as early as 2007 that Human Terrain Team members in Iraq and Afghanistan would become prey for insurgent groups. They were […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

These Fine, Young, Humanitarian…Zombies

Yes, indeed, as predicted a movie is now out featuring the dead “cultural warrior,” the scholar in military uniform, the applied social scientist deep in the trenches of Afghanistan. He may be dead, but he’s back, and he’s coming right at you, over and over again in… No, that is not the movie (which does […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

David Price interviews Roberto González on the Human Terrain System

The interview below was reproduced with the permission of Dr. David Price, from CounterPunch (03 February 2009). In connection with this post, see also: AMERICAN COUNTERINSURGENCY, by Roberto J. González (U. Chicago Press, 2009) Counterinsurgency, Anthropology and Disciplinary Complicity By DAVID PRICE During the spring and summer of 2007 word began circulating of a new military […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

Selectively Outraged, Half Humane, All American (1.7)

When the subject matter in more than just a few “isolated” incidents turns to using white phosphorous to burn civilians in their homes in Fallujah bombarding civilian populations in Iraq with cluster bombs delivered by artillery shells using shells coated with depleted uranium that then cause thousands of cancers and birth defects among civilians bombing […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

Pravda Publishes a Scathing Report on the Human Terrain System

US Army Human Terrain System in Disarray Millions of Dollars Wasted, Two Lives Sacrificed Pravda, July 23, 2008 by John Stanton According to sources, United States Army brigade commanders privately believe that the US Army’s TRADOC Human Terrain System (HTS) program is a “joke” and completely unnecessary. The HTS program is publicly supported by brigade […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

A second HTS Researcher has been killed

It was bound to happen that the Human Terrain System would come with its own body count. A few weeks ago a social scientist embedded with a military unit was killed in Afghanistan, marking the first death. Today there is news of a second: Nicole Suveges, killed in a bombing in Sadr City, Baghdad, on […]