دانلود کتاب The Counter-Counterinsurgency Manual: Or, Notes on Demilitarizing American Society

Network of Concerned Anthropologists, The Counter-Counterinsurgency Manual. Or, Notes on Demilitarizing American Society. Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, 2010.

THE COUNTER-COUNTERINSURGENCY MANUAL (CCM) (WHICH THE AUTHORS CALL a pamphlet), may well come to be regarded as the most important work to emerge from America s social sciences so far this millennium. It was written by the founders of the Network of Concerned Anthropologists (NCA), 11 anthropologists who came together in 2007 to find ways to express concerns over recent efforts to militarize anthropology.

With a "Preface" of powerful indignation from Marshall Sahlins, respected elder of U.S. anthropology, at the duplicity and lack of intellectual integrity of the U.S. military's designs on anthropology, the CCM is a rejoinder to the U.S. Army and Marine Corps' 2007 Counterinsurgency Field Manual (CFM) and a timely reaffirmation of the fundamental ethics, humane idealism, and professional standards of anthropology.

The CFM was published in December 2006 as part of a well-orchestrated publicity campaign to convince the American public that a smart new plan was underway to salvage the lost war in Iraq. The core of this new intellectually "smart bomb" for victory in Iraq was to legitimize the war by "academizing" or, more precisely, "anthropologizing" it. To paraphrase Alexander Leighton, the U.S. military used anthropology the way the drunk uses a lamppost, for support rather than illumination. The head of the task force to appropriate anthropological theory to the leveraging of a Pax Americana onto a resistant Iraq (and now Afghanistan) was America's latest "scholar-warrior," General Patraeus (Ph.D.). The CFM was his baby. The Pentagon, which hyped this new dream of cultural engineering as a "rare work of applied scholarship," was ably assisted in its assault on the American public by University of Chicago Press (UCP), which republished the CFM in 2007 and then flogged it into the Best Seller Lists as a "cult-read."