Human Terrain: The New Counterinsurgency?
The Afghan army commander motioned the American lieutenant into his office. Lt. Col. Attaullah was 48, with gelled hair, blue-framed eyeglasses and the rigid bearing of a communist general. A...
I went running. Away from the dusty plywood-floored tent where reporters stay, down the paved road that curved along the edge of the base, near where the rockets had been fired in a few nights...
While the White House considers whether to send more American troops into Afghanistan, it's also being asked to send in more anthropologists and social scientists.
Vanessa Gezari, for the Pulitzer Center
Vanessa Gezari, for the Pulitzer Center
Vanessa Gezari, for the Pulitzer Center
Vanessa Gezari, for the Pulitzer Center
Photos and audio reporting by Vanessa Gezari
Additional photos courtesy of U.S. Army Task Force 2-2
Editing by Megan Rossman of The Washington Post
U.S. soldiers are being joined by civilian anthropologists as part of the Human Terrain program, a new strategy to win over villagers.
On a bright March day, two members of an Army Human Terrain team in southern Afghanistan joined soldiers from the Second Battalion, Second Regiment of the First Infantry Division, known as Task For
One April afternoon, Lt. David Ochs, an earnest 23-year-old from Charlottesville, prepared to hand out humanitarian aid in a village called De Kak Chopan near the Helmand border.
Vanessa M. Gezari, for the Pulitzer Center
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Vanessa M. Gezari writes about national and international affairs with a focus on Afghanistan, South Asia and West Africa. She was a national writer for the St. Petersburg Times in Florida...