Cultural Awareness in the Military

Featuring chapters from social scientists directly engaged with the process, this volume offers a concise introduction to the U.S. military's effort to account for culture and increase its cultural capacity over the last decade. Contributors to this work consider some of the key challenges, lessons learned, and the limits of such efforts.

''This benchmark volume examines how the U.S. military has upped its attention to local cultures in order to win wars [...] and enhanced its reputation by providing humanitarian relief and protecting heritage. Expert analysts [...] offer sophisticated treatments of overarching issues and specific cases in this concise, excellent, and very timely account.'' - Richard Kurin, Under Secretary for History, Art, and Culture, Smithsonian Institution

Autorentext
Robert Albro, Center for Latin American & Latino Studies, American University, USA Steve Coll, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, USA Rochelle Davis, Georgetown University, USA Kerry Fosher, Cultural Anthropologist, USA Clementine Fujimura, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, USA Patty Gerstenblith, DePaul University, USA Bill Ivey, American Folklorist, USA Lynn H. Nicholas, Author, USA Robert A. Rubinstein, The Maxwell School, Syracuse University, USA Laurie W. Rush, Cultural Resources Manager and Federal Archaeologist, US Army, USA

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Military Cultural Capacity after Afghanistan; Robert Albro and Bill Ivey 2. Cautionary Tales from the US Department of Defense's Pursuit of Cultural Expertise; Kerry B. Fosher 3. Changing Culture with Culture at the US Naval Academy; Clementine Fujimura 4. Cultural Education and Training: the Era of COIN; Rochelle Davis 5. Humanitarian-Military Collaboration: Social and Cultural Aspects of Interoperability; Robert A. Rubinstein 6. Unsolved Issues of Protection and Recovery of Cultural Heritage in Times of Conflict; Lynn H. Nicholas 7. Beyond the 1954 Hague Convention; Patty Gerstenblith 8. Introducing Cultural Heritage Management to the US Military; Laurie W. Rush 9. A Journalist's Reflections on the Military Cultural Turn; Steve Coll