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Wednesday, 17 October 2007 |
| US army enlists anthropologists | The Pentagon is pulling out all the stops in Iraq and Afghanistan. The aim is to aid US soldiers' understanding of local cultures | It is sending "mine-resistant, ambush-protected" vehicles into the battlefield. It is also using cutting-edge biometric technologies to identify insurgents. But that is not all. The US military has developed a new programme known as the Human Terrain System (HTS) to study social groups in Iraq and Afghanistan. The HTS depends heavily on the co-operation of anthropologists, with their expertise in the study of human beings and their societies. |
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