Understanding others

Robin Ramsay

The Americans’ catastrophe in Iraq is prompting a rethink of US military tactics: as in, maybe it would be helpful if we knew something about the countries we invade. We need anthropologists, says Dr. Montgomery McFate, in ‘Anthropology and counterinsurgency: the strange story of their curious relationship’, Military Review, March/April 2005 (at ) ‘Anthropology is ... Read more

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20 Nov

Column extras. Oswald and the Angleton mole hunt; the British-American Project again; the myth of Britain's economic ranking; the Cold War's arms race inverted; the passing of Tony Bunyan; more.

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