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by Gezari, Vanessa M.

Bedouin women, 56–57

  Benedict, Ruth, 117, 122, 291n

  Berkeley, University of California at, 111–14

  Bhatia, Michael, 161–62, 167–68, 254n–55n, 302n–3n

  Biden, Joe, 248n

  bin Laden, Osama, 27, 44–45, 55

  Blackwater, 82, 139

  blood feuds, 240n, 263n

  Boas, Franz, 121–22, 289n

  bombs, bombers, bombings, 13, 19, 45, 79, 277n

  in Afghanistan, 27, 35, 64, 75–76, 88, 127, 131–39, 141, 144–47, 153–62, 169, 186, 190, 201, 208, 210, 223, 240n, 271n, 273n, 275n, 294n, 296n–98n, 307n

  insurgent social networks and, 27–28

  in Iraq, 2, 26–28, 35–37, 88, 162, 240n–41n, 246n–47n, 249n, 273n

  Maiwand and, 14, 88, 90, 94, 96, 99, 141, 201, 210, 221–23, 273n, 297n–98n

  and need for cooperation between military and civilian workers, 65–66

  suicide, 6, 19, 141, 208, 214, 232n, 297n–98n, 320n

  see also improvised explosive devices

  Bosnian War, 55, 71, 73, 238n, 262n

  Bowman Expeditions, 40–41, 251n

  Brooke Army Medical Center, 130–31, 140

  Brown, Cale, 262n, 269n, 272n–73n

  Brown, Sam, 273n

  Brun, Djeens, 235n

  Bureau of Ethnology, 121

  Bureau of Indian Affairs, 70, 262n

  Burton, Sir Richard, 114

  Bush, George W., 43, 118, 268n–69n, 310n

  and nation building in Iraq, 36–37, 247n–48n

  Buzkashi, 80

  Cabayan, Hriar “Doc,” 28–30

  background of, 28, 241n

  cultural intelligence and, 29–30, 241n–43n

  IED attacks and, 28, 240n–42n

  McFate and, 29–30, 117

  Callahan, Ted, 306n

  Camelot, Project, 122–24, 197, 290n–91n

  Canadians:

  in Afghanistan, 84, 169–70, 207, 268n–69n, 272n

  HTS and, 169–70

  Cardinalli, AnnaMaria:

  education and background of, 179–80

  HTS and, 177–87, 190, 312n

  Carle, Glenn, 288n

  Carlough, Martin, 104, 107

  Center for Naval Analyses, 308n, 317n–18n

  Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 24–25, 29, 40, 44–45, 97, 116, 118, 243n, 288n

  Chayes, Sarah, 271n–72n

  Chehel Gazi:

  attack on Loyd in, 16–22, 127–28, 235n–37n

  bazaar near, 7–9, 11, 13–15, 206, 232n, 279n, 319n

  Jack Bauer and, 13–14, 16–17

  meaning of name of, 9

  physical appearance, 8–9

  Salam and, 13–16, 204–6, 208, 217

  U.S. military patrols in, 6–11, 13–19, 207, 232n–35n, 293n

  Chile, 123–24, 290n

  Choate Rosemary Hall, 51–52, 226

  Clark, Karen, 308n

  Clinton, Bill, 45

  Clinton, Hillary Rodham, 52, 226

  Cloud, David, 304n

  Coburn, Noah, 240n

  cockfights, 121

  Cold War, 2, 24, 33, 123, 150, 198, 238n, 241n, 248n, 315n

  Colonialism, 30

  anthropology and, 119, 125, 283n–84n

  of British, 113–14, 283n–84n

  Colors Insulting to Nature (Wilson), 108

  combat-stress related injuries, 76–77, 146–47, 155–56, 264n, 293n, 301n

  Commission on the Engagement of Anthropology with the Security and Intelligence Communities (CEAUSSIC), 315n

  Congress, U.S., 24, 35, 83, 123, 193, 224, 243n, 310n, 318n

  Connable, Ben, 189

  Cooper, Clint, 70–77, 132, 279n

  and attack on Loyd, 16–21, 127–31, 236n, 292n–93n

  Chehel Gazi patrol and, 6–8, 10–11, 13–18, 232n, 234n–35n, 292n–92n

  childhood and adolescence of, 70–71, 76

  cultural intelligence and, 91, 225

  education of, 70, 72

  foreign language skills of, 6, 13, 70–75, 130

  HTS and, 2, 6–8, 10–11, 77, 91–93, 97–98, 162, 166, 169, 172, 200, 225, 264n–65n, 275n, 304n–5n, 308n

  and IED attacks in Afghanistan, 75–76

  illnesses and injuries of, 72, 76–77, 129, 264n

  intelligence and, 72, 75–77, 263n–64n

  interpreters used by, 11–12

  as interrogator, 72–77, 263n–64n

  and Loyd, 8, 16–21, 127–31, 200, 236n, 234n–35n, 319n

  Maiwand and, 7, 13–14, 23, 91–92, 97–99, 127–29, 221, 232n, 235n, 265n

  military career of, 70–73, 262n–63n

  physical appearance of, 6, 232n

  religious beliefs of, 18, 70, 77, 91

  Salam and, 13–15, 128, 292n–93n, 301n

  Taliban and, 73–76, 263n–64n

  Cooper, Kathy, 70–71, 76–77

  counterinsurgency, 46, 120, 138, 241n, 288n, 313n

  in Afghanistan, 1–2, 10, 42–43, 83, 134, 136, 174–76, 187–89, 238n, 249n, 253n, 294n–95n, 307n

  anthropology and, 118–19, 124–25, 286n–87n

  intelligence and, 10, 43–44, 253n

  Iraq and, 2, 10, 42–43, 252n

  Maiwand and, 87–88

  and Obama, 174

  Petraeus and, 10, 42–43, 253n

  research in Thailand on, 124–25

  revision of doctrine of, 42–44, 252n–53n

  Sosh and, 32, 244n

  Crook, George, 288n

  Cruise, Tom (interpreter), 11, 22, 211, 237n

  cultural intelligence, 249n, 277n, 313n–14n

  Afghanistan and, 2–3, 10, 31, 41, 165, 171–73, 175–77, 187–88, 190–92, 195, 198

  Army and, 2, 6, 28, 37–39, 41, 102, 165, 173, 192, 194–95, 241n

  colonialism and, 30, 283n

  counterinsurgency and, 10, 43–44, 241n

  geography and, 40–41

  Gusinov and, 90–91

  HTS and, 6, 10, 41, 46, 91–93, 96, 165–66, 171–73, 190–92, 194, 225, 305n

  insurgents and, 28, 36, 195, 241n, 244n

  and invasion of Marja, 190–91

  Iraq and, 10, 29–31, 35–38, 117, 165, 244n, 246n–48n, 250n

  Kipp and, 238n, 250n, 316n

  McFarland on, 37–38, 249n

  McFate and, 29–31, 35–36, 43–44, 102, 117, 242n–44n, 250n

  technology and, 24–25, 29, 238n–39n

  war and, 1–3, 118, 125–26

  Cultural Preparation of the Environment (CPE), 29–30, 36, 38, 117–18, 241n–43n, 247n

  Custer, John, 241n

  Dari, 72, 90, 263n, 276n, 274n–75n, 304n

  HTS training and, 163–64

  Defense Department, U.S. (DOD), 34, 72, 134, 175, 241n, 245n–47n, 274n

  anthropology and, 117, 287n

  cultural intelligence and, 29, 247n, 250n

  HTS and, 24, 46, 162, 164, 173, 193, 196–98, 251n, 303n, 315n, 318n

  Iraq and, 27–28, 35, 249n, 268n

  Project Camelot and, 123, 290n–91n

  Special Technical Operations Division of, 33, 245n

  Deitchman, Seymour J., 289n–90n

  Democrats, 285n

  demographics, 30, 36, 166, 192, 242n, 247n, 250n

  Denny, Bryan, 224, 326n

  Diyala Province (Iraq), 29–30, 247n

  Dobson, Jerome E., 40–41, 251n

  Dudley-Flores, Marilyn, 303n

  Dunlap, Cas, 177–79, 187, 190, 311n–12n

  DynCorp, 152, 266n

  economics, economy, 9, 39, 65, 97, 120, 188, 197, 203, 255n

  Afghan civil war and, 174–75

  counterinsurgencies and, 124–25, 174

  cultural intelligence and, 30, 195

  Iraq and, 30, 37, 248n–49n

  Edwards, David B., 287n–88n

  Egypt, 56, 105

  Ehsan, Hajji Mohammad, 86, 217–18

  espionage, 114, 118–21, 123, 167, 288n

  ethnography, ethnology, 53, 113, 124, 171, 17
9, 262n, 267n, 283n–84n

  cultural intelligence and, 242n–43n, 250n

  HTS and, 45, 81, 163, 166–67

  intelligence and, 120, 288n, 316n–17n

  Vietnam War and, 30–31

  windshield, 166

  Evans-Pritchard, E. E., 113, 283n

  Fahim, Mohammad, 79

  Faith of My Fathers (McCain with Salter), 133, 294n

  Fallows, James, 252n

  Falluja, 187, 244n

  Farsi, 184, 263n, 274n

  Faulkner, William, 79

  Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 164, 177

  Feldman, Allen, 284n

  Figley, Charles, 146–47, 155–57, 299n, 301n

  Flo (interpreter), 181–85

  Flournoy, Michèle, 249n

  Flynn, Mike, 195–96, 317n

  “Fog and Friction of Technology, The” (Kipp and Grau), 239n

  Fondacaro, Steve, 31–38, 319n

  education of, 31–33, 244n–45n

  HTS and, 38, 44, 46, 124, 193, 195–98, 200, 224, 247n, 250n, 254n–55n, 291n, 313n, 315n, 317n–18n

  and IED attacks in Iraq, 35–37, 246n–47n

  intelligence and, 36, 38, 247n, 313n, 315n, 317n

  Korean tour of, 33–34, 245n

  and McFate, 31, 35

  Pentagon tour of, 33, 245n

  on soldiers of future, 34–35, 246n

  on U.S. policy failures, 33–34

  Vietnam and, 32–34, 244n

  Foreign Military Studies Office, 24–25, 37–41, 193–94

  Grau and, 25, 40, 238n, 269n

  HTS and, 38, 41, 193

  technology and, 25, 39

  foreign policy, 174, 197, 289n

  Ayala’s mentoring skills and, 137–38

  Fondacaro on, 33–34

  Project Camelot and, 122, 290n–91n

  Fort Benning, Ga., 67, 129, 140, 299n

  Fort Leavenworth, Kans., see Leavenworth, Fort Leavenworth, Kans.

  Fosher, Kerry, 119

  Galtung, Johan, 123

  Gardez, 78, 274n

  Garmabak Pass, 91, 276n

  Gate 5, 104–8, 282n

  Gates, Robert, 134, 175, 268n

  Geertz, Clifford, 120–21, 284n, 287n–88n

  Geller, Adam, 303n

  geography, 40–41, 251n, 304n

  Germany, 49, 64, 115–16, 121, 129–30, 262n

  Cooper’s adolescence in, 70–71

  geography and, 251n

  Nazis and, 112, 282n

  ghazis, 84

  Ghazni, 78, 136, 274n

  Gibbs, Calvin, 325n

  González, Roberto J., 118

  Grau, Lester W., 270n

  Foreign Military Studies Office and, 25, 40, 238n, 269n

  Soviet-Afghan War and, 25, 238n

  technology and, 25, 38, 239n

  trip to Iraq of, 39–40

  gray literature, 39

  Great Britain, 72, 112–17, 129, 243n

  Afghanistan and, 84, 177–78, 186–87, 190, 192, 209, 269n–70n, 311n

  Arabs and, 101, 120

  colonialism of, 113–14, 283n–84n

  cultural intelligence and, 30, 250n

  HTS and, 178, 187, 190, 192

  IRA and, 30, 112, 284n

  Maiwand and, 84–85, 269n–70n

  night letters and, 311n

  Great Game, 84, 119

  Grenada, 33, 150–51

  gunfire, celebratory, 36

  Gusinov, Tim, 97

  cultural intelligence and, 90–91

  foreign language skills of, 90, 274n–75n

  HTS and, 89–92, 274n–76n

  IEDs and, 275n

  and Loyd, 90–91

  Maiwand and, 90–91, 275n

  Soviet-Afghan War and, 89–91

  Gusterson, Hugh, 286n

  Habibi, Muhib, 201–2, 218

  hand signals, 31

  Haqqani, Jalaluddin, 44–46

  Harvard University, 29, 115

  Hastings, Michael, 253n

  Hazaras, 171–72, 226

  health care, 80, 91, 249n

  HTS missions and, 180–87, 311n–12n

  Loyd and, 56–57, 62, 130–31, 140, 146

  Hekmatyar, Gulbuddin, 61, 78

  Helmand, 56, 87, 95, 97, 129, 177–90, 272n, 313n

  HTS and, 177–87, 190, 192–93, 304n, 315n–16n

  Marines in, 177–78, 186–88, 190, 192–93

  Helmand River, 84, 187, 270n

  Herat, 87, 95, 272n

  Highway 1, 82, 87, 267n, 272n

  Hilton, Claude M., 159–60, 266n–67n

  hippies, 51, 105, 108, 112

  Hitler, Adolf, 251n

  Ho Chi Minh, 33–34, 245n

  Holbert, Robert, 163, 167–68, 303n–4n

  Horowitz, Irving Louis, 123–24, 197, 290n–91n

  houseboats, houseboat communities, 104–8, 111–12, 280n–82n

  Howard, Mike, 194–95

  humanitarian aid, 10, 37, 63–66, 72, 167, 192, 197, 203

  in Afghanistan, 64–66, 261n

  Loyd and, 55, 261n, 319n

  in Maiwand, 88, 136 PRTs and, 58–59

  Human Relations Area Files, 113, 283n

  Human Terrain, 286n–87n

  Human Terrain System (HTS), Human Terrain Teams (HTTs), 38–42, 161–74, 232n–36n, 251n, 274n–78n, 288n, 313n

  AF1, 45–46, 255n

  AF4, 83, 89, 169–70, 172

  AF6, 177–78, 180, 189–90

  AF7, 186–87

  Afghanistan and, 1–3, 7, 10–11, 40, 44–46, 77, 81–83, 89–96, 99, 138, 161–65, 167–73, 177–87, 189–95, 199–200, 225, 255n, 267n–68n, 275n, 291n, 303n–4n, 306n, 311n–12n, 315n–17n

  alleged improprieties of, 162, 224, 256, 326n

  anthropology and, 1–2, 10, 41, 45–46, 101–2, 125, 164, 166, 168, 191, 194, 198, 286n, 303n, 305n–6n

  arguments among members of, 166–67

  Ayala and, 6–8, 11, 78, 81–82, 88–89, 91–94, 98, 135, 137–39, 162, 166–70, 234n, 236n, 255n, 267n–68n, 274n, 277n, 298n, 305n–6n

  Cardinalli and, 177–86, 190, 312n

  casualties among social scientists in, 161–62, 167–69

  Chehel Gazi patrol and, 6–11, 13–18, 232n, 235n

  Cooper and, 2, 6–8, 10–11, 77, 91–93, 97–98, 162, 166, 169, 172, 200, 225, 264n–65n, 275n, 304n–5n, 308n

  counterinsurgency and, 10, 46

  criticisms and disappointment with, 125, 165–66, 172–73, 189, 191–93, 195–97, 286n, 303n, 305n–8n, 317n–18n

  cultural intelligence and, 6, 10, 41, 46, 91–93, 96, 165–66, 171–73, 190–92, 194, 225, 305n

  culturally conscious war and, 1–3

  Dunlap and, 177–79, 187, 190, 311n

  evolution of, 24, 102, 247n, 249n–50n, 316n

  finances of, 2, 41, 46, 197–98, 254n, 318n

  firing members of, 192, 195–96

  growth of, 46, 193, 196

  Gusinov and, 89–92, 274n–76n

  investigations of, 162, 224, 256, 326n

  and invasion of Marja, 190–91

  Iraq and, 2, 24, 81–82, 162–65, 167–68, 173–74, 194, 303n–4n, 309n, 316n–17n

  in Khost, 44–46, 162, 195, 255n, 303n

  Lacy and, 177–78, 186, 190–91, 314n–15n

  Leatherneck and, 177–80, 186, 189, 192

  Loyd and, 1–3, 7–8, 10–11, 77–78, 83, 88, 90–98, 125, 161–62, 167–69, 199–200, 214, 217, 235n, 255n, 275n–78n, 298n, 304n–5n, 320n

  McFate and, 38, 101–2, 120, 124, 193, 196–97, 224–25, 250n, 255n, 316n–18n

  Maiwand and, 23, 82–83, 85, 88–98, 169, 172, 178, 223–24, 255n, 265n

  management and administration of, 38, 44, 46, 167, 173, 192–96, 198, 200, 224–25, 291n, 303n–4n, 308n, 317n–18n

  medical missions and, 180–87, 311n–12n

  mission and goals of, 77, 81–82, 89, 91, 166–68, 189–90, 193, 250n, 317n

  origins of, 2, 23–24, 38, 241n

  overhaul of, 224–25

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nbsp; pay and benefits of members of, 173–74, 224, 308n

  praise for, 194–96, 314n, 317n

  precursors of, 38–41

  Salam and, 21, 135, 236n

  security of, 12, 95, 168–70, 233n, 235n, 268n, 286n, 294n, 306n–7n

  staffing and hiring practices of, 41, 44, 194, 196, 264n, 275n, 303n, 306n, 308n, 316n–18n

  training of, 46, 81–82, 90–92, 162–68, 172–73, 177–78, 181, 183, 193, 265n, 267n, 275n, 303n–8n, 312n, 318n

  Warren and, 82, 89, 92, 278n, 320n

  Weston Resolve and, 163–65

  Hurlbut, Dan, 268n–69n, 272n–75n, 296n

  Loyd’s death and, 216–17

  Maiwand and, 90, 272n–73n

  Salam and, 217, 324n–25n

  Hussein, Saddam, 26, 310n

  Hutal, Forward Operating Base, 272n, 298n

  IED Blitz, 240n–41n

  imperialism, 2, 59, 114, 122–23, 283n

  improvised explosive devices (IEDs), 239n–42n

  in Afghanistan, 27, 35, 75–76, 161–62, 223, 240n, 273n, 275n, 296n

  cultural intelligence and, 28, 241n–42n

  in Iraq, 2, 26–28, 35–37, 240n–41n, 246n–47n, 249n, 273n

  India, 84, 206, 270n

  infrastructure, 39, 62, 243n, 249n

  Highway 1 and, 82, 87, 267n, 272n

  Maiwand and, 88, 273n

  Institute of Human Relations, 283n

  insurgents, insurgencies, insurgency, 106, 120, 167, 314n

  in Afghanistan, 10, 12–13, 25, 44–46, 58–59, 62, 65–66, 72, 74–76, 83, 86–88, 90, 94–96, 130, 134–36, 174–77, 186, 190–91, 195, 199–203, 209–10, 213–14, 216–17, 221–22, 268n, 271n, 273n, 276n, 310n–11n

  Cooper and, 72, 74–75

  cultural intelligence and, 28, 36, 195, 241n, 244n

  escape from Kandahar prison of, 135–36

  IED attacks and, 27, 76

  and invasion of Marja, 190–91

  in Iraq, 25, 27, 36, 152, 176, 246n, 310n

  in Khost, 44–46

  Jack Bauer’s monitoring of, 12–13

  Loyd’s death and, 199–200, 206–7, 214, 216–17, 219

  Maiwand and, 12, 87–88, 90–91, 94–96, 201, 210, 221–22

  Project Camelot and, 122–23

  Salam and, 135, 202, 219, 222

  social networks of, 27–28, 241n

  tools of convenience in attacks of, 206–7

  see also Taliban

  intelligence, 69, 90, 113, 116, 134, 163, 176, 188–91, 222–23, 239n, 241n–43n

  Cardinalli and, 179–80

  comparisons between anthropology and, 30, 121–22, 288n–89n

  Cooper and, 71–72, 75–77, 263n–64n

  counterinsurgency and, 10, 43–44, 253n

  cultural, see cultural intelligence

  defined by Army, 249n, 313n–14n

  ethnography and, 120, 288n, 316n–17n

  HTS and, 2, 41, 92, 94–95, 166–67, 189, 194–95, 275n, 291n, 313n–15n, 317n

  Iraq and, 37, 180, 241n

 

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