An Afghan boy at a medical clinic set up by American Army medics and an anthropologist in the Shabak Valley in Afghanistan.
Friday, October 5, 2007
Army Enlists Anthropology in War Zones
The Pentagon may be getting smarter...........it has set up the first ever "Human Terrain Team" which is an experimental program that assigns anthropologists and other social scientists to American combat units in Afghanistan and Iraq. So far, the team's ability to understand subtle points of tribal relations has won the praise of officers who say they are seeing concrete results. Read on.
An Afghan boy at a medical clinic set up by American Army medics and an anthropologist in the Shabak Valley in Afghanistan.
An Afghan boy at a medical clinic set up by American Army medics and an anthropologist in the Shabak Valley in Afghanistan.
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