ANTH 2200 Lecture Notes - Sylvanus Morley, Gregory Bateson, Cora Du Bois
14 Mar 2014
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"counterinsurgency operations, defines insurgency as an organized movement aimed at the overthrow of a constituted government through use of subversion and armed conflict. It is a protracted politico-military struggle designed to weaken government control and legitimacy while in- creasing insurgent control. Political power is the central issue in an insurgency [emphasis added]. " (p25: pearl harbour: america was convinced that the japanese would never attack pearl harbour. India: nuclear testing in india had resulted in the development of a nuclear bomb: may 1998 they tested and the intelligence was wrong; america assumed they wouldn"t dare do something like that. Bjp nationalistic hindu party of india: mirror-imaging is the process whereby the american military attribute to the other party the same values that they held regarding the use of force. The u. s. rationale for launching an invasion against an enemy or for doing a nuclear test would be different, but they projected their values onto the japanese and the indians.
