ANT100Y1 Lecture 2: Lecture 2.docx
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Powell weinberger doctrine: overwhelming power, go after them with the biggest guns and weapons and hit as hard as you can, the idea you do the calculations (this many soldiers, fuel, and so on and see what the odds are, mcfate is saying that this doctrine needs to be revised, that is where anthropology comes in , that it can have a softened effect. Why is anthro not involved in us military consideration: based more on mathematics and so on, doesn"t seem useful for them, couldn"t understand it, anthropology is a discovery into post modernism (important developments, self criticism of anthros role in colonialism, de centering away from a euro centric view, focusing more on colonized voices, all the major world powers have immigrants from their past colonies, worst part of post modernism has bad writing : very hard to understand.
