Escaping the Bind: Comparing Twenty-First Century US Counterinsurgency Doctrine and the French Response to the Algerian Revolution, 1955–1956

Autor:	Douglas W. Leonard
Rok vydání:	2014
Předmět:	Cultural Studies Insurgency History media_common.quotation_subject Twenty-First Century Doctrine Resistance (psychoanalysis) Colonialism Afghan Anthropology Political economy Law Sophistication Amateur media_common
Zdroj:	History and Anthropology. 25:627-647
ISSN:	1477-2612 0275-7206
DOI:	10.1080/02757206.2014.933100
Popis:	Faced with a growing Algerian insurgency in 1955, French Governor-General Jacques Soustelle turned to his ethnological training to convert soldiers into amateur social scientists, hoping to better know the people of Algeria and therefore ease pacification through cultural understanding. Soustelle failed to appreciate the sophistication of revolt in Algeria, a diverse array of movements that did not fit traditional European categories. Confronting similar problems in understanding the causes of Iraqi and Afghan resistance in the years following the invasions of 2001–2003, American military planners also turned to anthropology. Though not taken to the administrative extreme seen in Soustelle's Algeria, the United States Army instituted the Human Terrain System in order to better understand native populations involved in an active insurgency. American planners can learn from the French experience by developing a more nuanced approach to study that includes more advanced anthropological techniques without the...
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