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Anthropologists ARE intelligence assets for the military. Get over it. All information is intelligence by another name. Either they will willingly work with the military to gain access to areas in crisis, or they can sit back and watch cultures they say they care about be destroyed by conflict. If members of the military cannot use these scientists directly, then they will do their best to BECOME anthopologists using open source material (military officers CAN read despite popular academic belief) and will apply theories as they see best without academic advice, and maybe just force the issue by forcably changing the culture instead of using it. Bottom line, the US military does not involve itself in areas or cultures that are doing all right, we are only there because something went really wrong. We are trying to fix it in a way that supports our interests. Anthropologists may be able to guide military operations in ways that both accomplish the military and national objectives while preserving what is best about local cultures, while at the same time learning from them.
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The SWO
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