Critiques the Pentagon's Counterinsurgency Field Manual, which offered a blueprint for mobilizing the cultural expertise of anthropologists for the war in Iraq. Explores the ethical and intellectual conflicts of the Pentagon's Human Terrain System, and probes the increasing militarization of academic knowledge.

Preface / Marshall Sahlins -- Introduction: war, culture, and counterinsurgency / Roberto González, Hugh Gusterson, David Price -- Counter-histories of militarism. The military normal / Catherine Lutz ; Militarizing knowledge / Hugh Gusterson -- Countering the counterinsurgency manual. Faking scholarship / David Price ; Radical or reactionary? / Greg Feldman -- Countering counterinsurgency. Embedded / Roberto González ; Counter AFRICOM / Catherine Besteman -- Anthropological implications. Anthropology and HUMINT / Andrew Bickford ; About face! / Kanhong Lin -- Alternatives. Proposals for a humanpolitik / David Vine.