Press
PROFILES
Editors, "Brave Thinkers Who Are Shaping the Future: Montgomery McFate, Senior Social Scientist at the Human Terrain System," Atlantic Monthly, November 2009, p. 70. Available at: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/11/brave-thinkers/7692/7 (see also related interview: http://bravethinkers.theatlantic.com)
Spencer Ackerman, "Women Prominent in Defense Movement" (Seventh in a Series: The Rise of the Counterinsurgents), Washington Independent, July 8, 2008. Available at: http://www.washingtonindependent.com/view/women-prominent-in-defense-movement
Louisa Kamps, "Army Brat: How Did the Child of Peace-Loving Bay Area Parents Become the New Superstar of National Security Circles?" Elle Magazine, April 2008, p. 309. View the PDF here: http://www.montgomerymcfate.com/elle.pdf
Noah Shachtman, "Montgomery McFate Hold Your Fire!," Wired, October 2008, p. 168. Available at: http://www.wired.com/politics/law/magazine/16-10/sl_mcfate
Anna Mulrine, "Leading the Charge for Change," U.S. News & World Report, November 30, 2007. Available online at: http://www.usnews.com/news/iraq/articles/2007/11/30/leading-the-charge-for-change
Nina Burleigh, "Mcfate's Mission: Can a Former Punk Rocker Raised on a Houseboat Change the Way America Fights? Meet the Pentagon's Newest Weapon in the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan," More Magazine, September 2007, p. 120. Available at: http://www.ninaburleigh.com/journalism/montgomery-mcfate.html
Matthew B. Stannard, "Montgomery McFate's Mission: Can One Anthropologist Possibly Steer the Course in Iraq?," San Francisco Chronicle, April 29, 2007. Available at: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/04/29/CMGHQP19VD1.DTL
George Packer, "Knowing the Enemy: Can Social Scientists Redefine the 'War on Terror'"? The New Yorker, December 18, 2006. Available at: http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/12/18/061218fa_fact2
BROADCAST INTERVIEWS
"A Discussion About Counterinsurgency with Sarah Sewall & Montgomery McFate," Charlie Rose Show, December 24, 2007. Available at: http://www.charlierose.com/shows/2007/12/24/2/a-discussion-about-counterinsurgency
"This Week At War," CNN, October 13, 2007. Available at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0710/13/tww.01.html
"Academic Embeds: Scholars Advise Troops Abroad", Talk of the Nation, NPR October 9, 2007. Available at: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15124054
"Anthropologists and War," Diane Rehm Show, NPR, October 10, 2007.
Available at: http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2007-10-10
CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONY
Hearing Of Oversight And Investigations Subcommittee Of The House Armed Services Committee; Subject: Defense Language And Cultural Awareness Transformation, July 9, 2008. Available at:
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=110_house_hearings&docid=f:44211.wais
QUOTED
Joanne Kimberlin, "American Muscle Proves Futile In Land Of Extremes," The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA.), September 27, 2010, p. A1. Available at: http://hamptonroads.com/2010/09/part-2-american-muscle-proves-futile-land-extremes
John M. Doyle, "U.S. Should Map Human Terrain, State Dept. Official Says," Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, January 7, 2009, p. 3.
Vanessa M. Gezari, "Rough Terrain," The Washington Post, August 30, 2009, p. W16. Available at: http://pulitzercenter.org/articles/rough-terrain-human-terrain-program-embeds-anthropologists-us-military-afghanistan
Nathan Swire, "McFate Explains Human Terrain Teams," The Dartmouth (Hanover, New Hampshire), September 26, 2008. Available at: thedartmouth.com/2008/09/26/news/htt
Sydney J. Freedberg Jr., "Chess With the Sheiks," The National Journal, April 12, 2008. Available at: http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/chess-with-the-sheiks-20080412?mrefid=site_search
Dan Vergano and Elizabeth Weise, "Should anthropologists work alongside soldiers?;
Arguments pro, con go to core values of cultural science," USA Today, December 9, 2008, p. 11B. Available at: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/ethics/2008-12-08-anthropologists-soldiers_N.htm
Bill Stamets, "Anthropologists at War," In These Times, June 19 2008. Available at: http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3749/anthropologists_at_war/
Scott Canon, "Anthropologists debate working on war effort," Charleston Gazette (West Virginia), October 7, 2007, p. 16a.
Gates, Robert M., "Landon Lecture: Beyond Guns and Steel: Reviving the Nonmilitary Instruments of Power," Remarks Delivered at Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, November 26, 2007 (quoted in remarks).
Available at: http://www.defenselink.mil/speeches/speech.aspx?speechid=1199
Rohde, David, "Army Enlists Anthropology in War Zones," The New York Times, October 5, 2007. Available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/05/world/asia/05afghan.html
Kambiz Fattahi, "US army enlists anthropologists," BBC News, October 16, 2007. Available at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7042090.stm
Lorelei Kelly, "Love the Warrior, Hate the War," In These Times, Jan 22, 2007. Available at: www.inthesetimes.com/article/2980/
Anna Mulrine, "The Culture Warriors: The Pentagon Deploys Social Scientists To Help Understand Iraq's 'Human Terrain'," US News & World Report, November 30, 2007. Available at: http://www.usnews.com/news/iraq/articles/2007/11/30/the-pentagon-deploys-social-scientists-to-help-understand-iraqs-human-terrain
Greg Jaffe, "To Understand Sheiks in Iraq, Marines Ask 'Mac'," The Wall Street Journal, September 10, 2007. Available at: http://www.leatherneck.com/forums/showthread.php?t=53513
Lucy Stallworthy, "Experts Apply Anthropology to Iraq," UPI, Feb. 1, 2006. Available at: http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2006/02/01/Experts-apply-anthropology-to-Iraq/UPI-37621138822554/
Rodney L. Pringle, "Improved Cultural Awareness Can Aid NCW, Analysts Say," Aviation Week, Aug 12, 2004. Available at: http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_generic.jsp?channel=netdefense&id=news/cul08124.xml
