Armed with Expertise: The Militarization of American Social Research During the Cold War

ISBN-13: 9781501732645 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 224 str.

Joy Rohde

Opis

During the height of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon launched a controversial counterinsurgency program called the Human Terrain System. The program embedded social scientists within military units to provide commanders with information about the cultures and grievances of local populations. Yet the controversy it inspired was...