Description
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.
Table of Contents
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
