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Academia and Blind Outrage |
| Published: December 22, 2007, 5:57 pm |
| Tags: academia, harvard, counterinsurgency |
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The New York Times has an interesting article about involvement between academia and the US military. It specifically looks at the Carr Center For Human Rights at Harvard, which worked with the military to formulate the recent counterinsurgency field manual.The United States military is frequently criticized for not doing enough to reduce civilian casualties or to stabilize the places it is fighting to protect. Yet what happens when the outside experts who can offer such advice are condemned for doing exactly that?[...]At Harvard, some faculty and activists have been troubled that the university's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy helped revise the counterinsurgency field manual, even though the center's aim was to reduce civilian casualties. Members of the American Psychological Association have had fervid exchanges over what role if any its members should have in military interrogations. And anthropologists have passionately argued over a Pentagon program that uses [ Full article ] |
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