Panel: US Military Shouldn't Embed Anthropologists
The panel concluded that the Pentagon program, called the Human Terrain System, has two conflicting goals: counterinsurgency and research. Collecting data in the context of war, where coercion and offensive tactics are always potentially present, "can no longer be considered a legitimate professional exercise of anthropology," the report says. The New York Times 12/04/09

Posted December 4, 2009 06:15 AM