System Failure: Anthropologists on the Battlefield
System Failure: Anthropologists on the Battlefield by Tom Vanden Brook, USA Today.
The Human Terrain System, the military's controversial effort to enhance understanding the cultures where troops are deployed, takes another hit on the op-ed pages of The New York Times Sunday.
Journalist Vanessa Gezari writes that the program, in which the military has sent civilian social scientists to battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan, has noble aims but misses its targets badly…