Military Anthropology(1st Edition) Soldiers, Scholars and Subjects at the Margins of Empire by MontgomeryMcfate Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2018 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-068017-6, ISBN: 0-19-068017-2
"In almost every military intervention in its history, the US has made cultural mistakes that hindered attainment of its policy goals. From the strategic bombing of Vietnam to the accidental burning of the Koran in Afghanistan, it has blundered around with little consideration of local cultural beliefs and for the long-term effects on the host nation's society. Cultural anthropology--the so-called "handmaiden of colonialism"--has histori ..."
Pax Britannica British Counterinsurgency In Northern Ireland, 1969-1982 by MontgomeryMcfate Paperback, 552 Pages, Published 2015 by Wilberforce Codex ISBN-13: 978-0-9905743-1-6, ISBN: 0-9905743-1-8
"British forces conducted operations short of war in Northern Ireland for twenty-five years, yet they were unable to defeat the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA). In this heretofore unpublished dissertation from 1994, McFate identifies how certain cultural, legal, and political factors contributed to the longevity of violence in Northern Ireland. Viewing counterinsurgency as a self-reproducing cultural system with its own complex ..."
"The Human Terrain System (HTS) was catapulted into existence in 2006 by the US military's urgent need for knowledge of the human dimension of the battlespace in Iraq and Afghanistan. Its centrepiece was embedded groups of mixed military and civilian personnel, known as Human Terrain Teams (HTTs), whose mission was to conduct social science research and analysis and to advise military commanders about the local population. Bringing socia ..."
Military Anthropology Soldiers, Scholars and Subjects at the Margins of Empire (Hardback) by MontgomeryMcfate Hardcover, Published 2018 by C Hurst Co Publishers Ltd, United Kingdom ISBN-13: 978-1-84904-812-5, ISBN: 1-84904-812-6
"The Human Terrain System (HTS) was catapulted into existence in 2006 by the US military's urgent need for knowledge of the human dimension of the battlespace in Iraq and Afghanistan. Its centrepiece was embedded groups of mixed military and civilian personnel, known as Human Terrain Teams (HTTs), whose mission was to conduct social science research and analysis and to advise military commanders about the local population. Bringing socia ..."
Military Anthropology Soldiers, Scholars and Subjects at the Margins of Empire by MontgomeryMcfate 487 Pages, Published 2018 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-093472-9, ISBN: 0-19-093472-7
"Stephen Bochner, “The Social Psychology of Cross-Cultural Relations,” in
Cultures in Contact: Studies In ... NY: William Morrow & Co., 1947); U. Ben-
Shalom, Z. Lehrer, and E. Ben-Ari, “Cohesion During Military Operations: A Field
Study On ..."
Military Anthropology Soldiers, Scholars and Subjects at the Margins of Empire by MontgomeryMcfate Published 2018 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-093494-1, ISBN: 0-19-093494-8
"R. Brian Ferguson, “The General Consequences of War: An Amazonian
Perspective,” in Studying War, edited by S. P. ... of Cultures (Boston, MA: Boston
Publishing Company, 1984), a book for which Don Marshall was a historical
consultant; ... Too much US effort contributes too little to the big problem; there
are too many headquarters, organizations, and lines of ... Range Planning Task
Group Beliefs and Questions (unpublished, undated ..."
"Probably political science and economics have a different core reading list and
would be an exception to this broad generalization. ... of sixteen of my colleagues
who have served in the military and who have taught in professional military
education institutions. The other top nominees were the works of Morris Janowitz
and Samuel Huntington. ... 7 (July 2003): 320. ... that a book with a major
university press and an article or tw ..."
"Montgomery McFate and Janice H. Laurence (New York: Oxford University Press/
London: Hurst, 2014), Chapter 2 of this volume. See for example Peter G.
Northhouse, Leadership: Theory and Practice, 6th edn (Thousand Oaks, CA:
Sage, 2013), 137–59. Montgomery McFate and Steve Fondacaro, “Reflections on
the Human Terrain System During the First 4 Years,” PRISM 2, no. 4 (2011). See
Janice H. Laurence, “The Human Terrain System's Human Reso ..."
Pax Britannica British Counterinsurgency In Northern Ireland, 1969-1982 by MontgomeryMcfate 410 Pages, Published 2014 by Wilberforce Codex ISBN-13: 978-0-9905743-0-9, ISBN: 0-9905743-0-X
"... that the term 'armed conflict' of itself and in its context implies a certain level of
intensity of military operations which must be present before the Conventions or
the Protocols are to apply to any given situation, and that this level of intensity
cannot be less than that required for the application of Protocol II, by virtue of
Article 1 of that Protocol, to internal conflicts (cited in Wilson 1988:130). The
British jurist ..."