The Counter-Counterinsurgency Manual: Or, Notes on Demilitarizing American Society--a review

With a "Preface" of powerful indignation from Marshall Sahlins, respected elder of U.S. anthropology, at the duplicity and lack of intellectual integrity of the U.S. military's designs on anthropology, the CCM is a rejoinder to the U.S. Army and Marine Corps' 2007 Counterinsurgency Field Manual (CFM) and a timely reaffirmation of the fundamental ethics, humane idealism, and professional standards of anthropology. Launched in a media frenzy that saw the CFM splashed across NPR, ABC News, NBC, the New York Times, Newsweek, and other publications, the CFM was pitched as the philosophical expression of Patraeus' intellectual strategy for victory in Iraq.