Colonel Maxie McFarland – ZERO ANTHROPOLOGY

U.S. Army Human Terrain System News: Hamilton Deserves Credit, CG TRADOC in Trouble, Training Woes

Updated version: “Please warn your sources in HTS that TRADOC G2 senior management is on to them. I was told this in a conversation I had with the TRADOC G2 today. It’s sad that finding out your sources seems to be a priority. I hate to see anyone lose their job over this.” Clearly, program […]

Burlesque Afghanistan: Pulp Fiction from an Embedded “Reporter”

This is the second in a two part series on recent examples of the Human Terrain System in the military’s own media, and in military-embedded media. The first was “The Many Faces of the Human Terrain System in Iraq.” Much more remarkable, and coming from a supposedly professional journalist who embedded with the U.S. Army […]

US Army Generals Not Informed HTS was Spy/Intel Program: John Stanton

US Army Generals Not Informed HTS was Spy/Intel Program; Casualty Rate Excessive by John Stanton 29 April 2010 “Let me tell you what HTT is not. The Team is not an intelligence gathering too which is used to target individuals.” Colonel Martin Schweizter, USA, in testimony before the US Congress, April 2008. “Deployed HTTs work […]