When Scholars Join the Slaughter in Iraq and Afghanistan

News Analysis
By Dahr Jamail

A core tenet of the Obama administration’s plans for "victory" in Iraq and Afghanistan is an increased reliance on counterinsurgency.

As previously reportedon this web site, the US military has sent shock troops – anthropologists, sociologists and social psychologists – with their own troops in both Iraq and Afghanistan, who also donned helmets and flak jackets. By the end of 2007, American scholars in these fields were embedding with…