Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Introduction: Culture, Counterinsurgency, Conscience 1
4. SECTION 1. Categories of Conflict and Coercion: The Blue in Green and the Other
5. 1. Bluing Green in the Maldives: Countering Citizen Insurgency by “Civil”-izing National Security 23
6. 2. Phantom Power: Notes on Provisionality in Haiti 39
7. 3. The Categorization of People as Targets of Violence: A Perspective on the Colombian Armed Conflict 53
8. 4. Seeing Red: Mao Fetishism, Pax Americana, and the Moral Economy of War 67
9. SECTION 2. Ethnographic Experiences of American Power in the Age of the War on Terror
10. 5. Paranoid Styles of Nationalism after the Cold War: Notes from an Invasion of the Amazon 89
11. 6. Hungry Wolves, Inclement Storms: Commodified Fantasies of American Imperial Power in Contemporary Turkey 105
12. 7. Rwandan Rebels and U.S. Federal Prosecutors: American Power, Violence, and the Pursuit of Justice in the Age of the War on Terror 117
13. 8. Weapons, Passports, and News: Palestinian Perceptions of U.S. Power as a Mediator of War 125
14. 9. The Cold War Present: The Logic of Defense Time 137
15. SECTION 3. Counterinsurgency, Past and Present: Precedents to the Manual
16. 10. The Uses of Anthropology in the Insurgent Age 153
17. 11. Small Wars and Counterinsurgency 169
18. 12. Repetition Compulsion? Counterinsurgency Bravado in Iraq and Vietnam 179
19. 13. Counterinsurgency, The Spook, and Blowback 193
20. SECTION 4. The U.S. Military and U.S. Anthropology
21. 14. An Anthropologist among the Soldiers: Notes from the Field 215
22. 15. Indirect Rule and Embedded Anthropology: Practical, Theoretical, and Ethical Concerns 231
23. 16. Soft Power, Hard Power, and the Anthropological “Leveraging” of Cultural “Assets”: Distilling the Politics and Ethics of Anthropological Counterinsurgency 245
24. 17. Yes, Both, Absolutely: A Personal and Professional Commentary on Anthropological Engagement with Military and Intelligence Organizations 261
25. SECTION 5. Constructions and Destructions of Conscience
26. 18. The Cultural Turn in the War on Terror 279
27. 19. Cultural Sensitivity in a Military Occupation: Th e U.S. Military in Iraq 297
28. 20. The “Bad” Kill: A Short Case Study in American Counterinsurgency 311
29. 21. The Destruction of Conscience and the Winter Soldier 327
30. 22. No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy: History, Memory, and the Conscience of a Marine 343
31. Reference List 355
32. Contributors 381
33. Index 385