SHABAK VALLEY, Afghanistan — In this isolated Taliban stronghold in eastern Afghanistan, American paratroopers are fielding what they consider a crucial new weapon in counterinsurgency operations here: a soft-spoken civilian anthropologist named Tracy.
This is an example of the can do anything approach now being advocated for winning wars. It seems to be a correct approach in theory. In practice, It should be much more difficult since it requires people who have immense skills to implement it. It also has the downside of teaching part of the military how to develop programs and plans to control a civilian population.. One could presume that this skill would work well either for or against any group of citizens. If I know how to control Afganistan, do it would work well in Detroit as well. Anything or practice that has a powerful impact will be used in war. Anthropologists who do not understand that miss the point.
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