Montgomery Mcfate
Biographic Data
| ID | 147483 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Montgomery Mcfate |
| GIVEN NAMES | Montgomery |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcfate |
| SIGNATURE | MCFATE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Naval War College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2598-2552 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Considering anthropology and small wars
Almost every war since the origins of the discipline at the beginning of the 19th century has involved anthropology and anthropologists. In some cases, anthropologists participated directly as uniformed combatants. Following the philosopher George Lucas, one might call this ‘anthropology for the military, ’ having the purpose of directly providing expert knowledge with the goal of improving operations and strategy. In some cases this scholarship …
Useful Knowledge: Snouck Hurgronje and Islamic Insurgency in Aceh
Gregory Bateson and Information Operations
Gregory Bateson was an anthropologist who conducted fieldwork in New Guinea; worked for the OSS; introduced the concept of cybernetics into social science; developed the double bind theory of schizophrenia; and was a figure in the 1970s California counterculture. What can we learn from the life and legacy of Gregory Bateson with relevance to information operations? This chapter suggests how three of Bateson’s concepts might be employed. The first…
Robert Sutherland Rattray and Indirect Rule
This chapter begins with a description of how Captain Robert Sutherland Rattray, an anthropologist working for the British colonial government in what is now known as Ghana, may have averted a war between the Ashanti Empire and the British colonial government. This chapter offers a brief discussion of the origins of European colonial expansion and the various modes of European rule. Indirect rule is described as an administrative system, which (i…
Conclusion: David Prescott Barrows and the Military Execution of Foreign Policy
The story of David Prescott Barrows – an anthropologist who served in the Philippines and during the US invasion of Siberia – captures many of the points raised in this book. Specifically, Barrows’ life experiences demonstrate that military intervention always interferes with the local society; that strategic objectives must take social conditions into account; that problem framing determines problem solution; that framing a problem incorrectly w…
Don Marshall and the Strategic Objective
Under the fluorescent lights of the Pentagon and in the villages of Vietnam, Donald S. Marshall brought an anthropological perspective to bear on the most pressing national security issue of his day – determination of the ‘kind of war’ upon which the US had embarked, and the most expedient way to fight it. In the PROVN report and later in the Long Range Planning Task Group, Marshall outlined a ‘whole society’ approach to warfare, with a focus on …
Tom Harrisson and Unconventional Warfare
This chapter asks: what can we learn about unconventional warfare from the experience of Tom Harrisson – anthropologist, soldier and hell-raiser extraordinaire who led an army of Kelabit warriors against the Japanese in Borneo during World War II? Harrisson’s military expertise was unconventional warfare, a form of conflict in which soldiers work ‘by, with, and through’ indigenous forces. Working alongside local people to fight an illegitimate go…
A Military Anthropologist Looks at Islamic Insurgency in Aceh
Military Anthropology: Soldiers, Scholars and Subjects at the Margins of Empire
Mind the Gap
This chapter describes the military/academic divide that plagued HTS from inception, and offers some reasons for the existence of this divide. At the beginning of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan the US military was amenable to the insights and knowledge that social scientists could provide. Yet not since the Vietnam War had social scientists done so much soul searching about the relationship of their profession to the national security enterpris…
Social Science Goes to War: The Human Terrain System in Iraq and Afghanistan
1 Introduction - Unveiling the Human Terrain System / Montgomery McFate & Janice H. Laurence 1. - 2 Mind the Gap: Bridging the Military/Academic Divide / Montgomery McFate 45. - 3 An Anthropologist at War in Afghanistan / Ted Callahan 91. - 4 What Do You Bring to the Fight? A Year in Iraq as an Embedded Social Scientist / Katherine Blue Carroll 119. - 5 Playing Spades in Al Anbar: A Female Social Scientist among Marines and Special Forces / Jenni…
Cultural Knowledge and Common Sense: A response to González in this issue
Building Bridges or Burning Heretics
Building Bridges or Burning Heretics
Cultural Knowledge and Common Sense: A response to González in this issue
Mind the Gap
This chapter describes the military/academic divide that plagued HTS from inception, and offers some reasons for the existence of this divide. At the beginning of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan the US military was amenable to the insights and knowledge that social scientists could provide. Yet not since the Vietnam War had social scientists done so much soul searching about the relationship of their profession to the national security enterpris…
Social Science Goes to War: The Human Terrain System in Iraq and Afghanistan
1 Introduction - Unveiling the Human Terrain System / Montgomery McFate & Janice H. Laurence 1. - 2 Mind the Gap: Bridging the Military/Academic Divide / Montgomery McFate 45. - 3 An Anthropologist at War in Afghanistan / Ted Callahan 91. - 4 What Do You Bring to the Fight? A Year in Iraq as an Embedded Social Scientist / Katherine Blue Carroll 119. - 5 Playing Spades in Al Anbar: A Female Social Scientist among Marines and Special Forces / Jenni…
Gregory Bateson and Information Operations
Gregory Bateson was an anthropologist who conducted fieldwork in New Guinea; worked for the OSS; introduced the concept of cybernetics into social science; developed the double bind theory of schizophrenia; and was a figure in the 1970s California counterculture. What can we learn from the life and legacy of Gregory Bateson with relevance to information operations? This chapter suggests how three of Bateson’s concepts might be employed. The first…
Robert Sutherland Rattray and Indirect Rule
This chapter begins with a description of how Captain Robert Sutherland Rattray, an anthropologist working for the British colonial government in what is now known as Ghana, may have averted a war between the Ashanti Empire and the British colonial government. This chapter offers a brief discussion of the origins of European colonial expansion and the various modes of European rule. Indirect rule is described as an administrative system, which (i…
Conclusion: David Prescott Barrows and the Military Execution of Foreign Policy
The story of David Prescott Barrows – an anthropologist who served in the Philippines and during the US invasion of Siberia – captures many of the points raised in this book. Specifically, Barrows’ life experiences demonstrate that military intervention always interferes with the local society; that strategic objectives must take social conditions into account; that problem framing determines problem solution; that framing a problem incorrectly w…
Don Marshall and the Strategic Objective
Under the fluorescent lights of the Pentagon and in the villages of Vietnam, Donald S. Marshall brought an anthropological perspective to bear on the most pressing national security issue of his day – determination of the ‘kind of war’ upon which the US had embarked, and the most expedient way to fight it. In the PROVN report and later in the Long Range Planning Task Group, Marshall outlined a ‘whole society’ approach to warfare, with a focus on …
Tom Harrisson and Unconventional Warfare
This chapter asks: what can we learn about unconventional warfare from the experience of Tom Harrisson – anthropologist, soldier and hell-raiser extraordinaire who led an army of Kelabit warriors against the Japanese in Borneo during World War II? Harrisson’s military expertise was unconventional warfare, a form of conflict in which soldiers work ‘by, with, and through’ indigenous forces. Working alongside local people to fight an illegitimate go…
A Military Anthropologist Looks at Islamic Insurgency in Aceh
Military Anthropology: Soldiers, Scholars and Subjects at the Margins of Empire
Useful Knowledge: Snouck Hurgronje and Islamic Insurgency in Aceh
Considering anthropology and small wars
Almost every war since the origins of the discipline at the beginning of the 19th century has involved anthropology and anthropologists. In some cases, anthropologists participated directly as uniformed combatants. Following the philosopher George Lucas, one might call this ‘anthropology for the military, ’ having the purpose of directly providing expert knowledge with the goal of improving operations and strategy. In some cases this scholarship …
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