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For the U.S. Army, a Crash Course in Cultural Studies

In July of last year I was stranded for a week at a military base in Kuwait, waiting for a flight to Kabul. I was traveling with four members of a new U.S. Army unit called the Human Terrain Team (HTT). One morning the team sat at a long table in the mess hall. It was already 120 degrees outside, and there was no compelling reason to leave the air-conditioning. Our flight wasn’t scheduled to leave until that night.

As the team picked over the remains of breakfast, the members debated what their unit insignia, which they would wear…

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Steve Featherstone’s last article for Harper’s Magazine , “The Coming Robot Army,” appeared in the February 2007 issue.



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