Dr. Montgomery McFate is professor at the US Naval War College. Dr. McFate received a BA from UC Berkeley, a PhD in Anthropology from Yale, and a JD from Harvard Law School. She is the author of Military Anthropology (Oxford University Press, 2018) and editor of Social Science Goes to War (Oxford University Press, 2015).

• Introduction: Considering anthropology and small warsMontgomery McFate1. Combat anthropologist: Charles T. R. Bohannan, counter-insurgency pioneer, 1936-1966Jason S. Ridler2. Archaeology and small warsChristopher Jasparro3. Identity wars: collective identity building in insurgency and counterinsurgencyHeather S. Gregg4. Lost in translation: anthropologists and Marines in Iraq and AfghanistanPaula Holmes-Eber5. Beyond faith and foxholes: vernacular religion and asymmetrical warfare within contemporary IDF combat units Nehemia Stern and Uzi Ben Shalom6. Doing one’s job: translating politics into military practice in the Norwegian mentoring mission to IraqKjetil Enstad7. ‘The perfect counterinsurgent’: reconsidering the case of Major Jim Gant David B. Edwards8. Francis FitzGerald’s Fire in the Lake, state legitimacy and anthropological insights on a revolutionary warPaul B. Rich9. Accidental ethnographers: the Islamic State’s tribal engagement experimentCraig Whiteside and Anas Elallame10. The anthropology of Al-Shabaab: the salient factors for the insurgency movement’s recruitment project Mohamed Haji Ingiriis

Dr. Montgomery McFate is professor at the US Naval War College. Dr. McFate received a BA from UC Berkeley, a PhD in Anthropology from Yale, and a JD from Harvard Law School. She is the author of Military Anthropology (Oxford University Press, 2018) and editor of Social Science Goes to War (Oxford University Press, 2015).

• Introduction: Considering anthropology and small warsMontgomery McFate1. Combat anthropologist: Charles T. R. Bohannan, counter-insurgency pioneer, 1936-1966Jason S. Ridler2. Archaeology and small warsChristopher Jasparro3. Identity wars: collective identity building in insurgency and counterinsurgencyHeather S. Gregg4. Lost in translation: anthropologists and Marines in Iraq and AfghanistanPaula Holmes-Eber5. Beyond faith and foxholes: vernacular religion and asymmetrical warfare within contemporary IDF combat units Nehemia Stern and Uzi Ben Shalom6. Doing one’s job: translating politics into military practice in the Norwegian mentoring mission to IraqKjetil Enstad7. ‘The perfect counterinsurgent’: reconsidering the case of Major Jim Gant David B. Edwards8. Francis FitzGerald’s Fire in the Lake, state legitimacy and anthropological insights on a revolutionary warPaul B. Rich9. Accidental ethnographers: the Islamic State’s tribal engagement experimentCraig Whiteside and Anas Elallame10. The anthropology of Al-Shabaab: the salient factors for the insurgency movement’s recruitment project Mohamed Haji Ingiriis

Dr. Montgomery McFate is professor at the US Naval War College. Dr. McFate received a BA from UC Berkeley, a PhD in Anthropology from Yale, and a JD from Harvard Law School. She is the author of Military Anthropology (Oxford University Press, 2018) and editor of Social Science Goes to War (Oxford University Press, 2015).

• Introduction: Considering anthropology and small warsMontgomery McFate1. Combat anthropologist: Charles T. R. Bohannan, counter-insurgency pioneer, 1936-1966Jason S. Ridler2. Archaeology and small warsChristopher Jasparro3. Identity wars: collective identity building in insurgency and counterinsurgencyHeather S. Gregg4. Lost in translation: anthropologists and Marines in Iraq and AfghanistanPaula Holmes-Eber5. Beyond faith and foxholes: vernacular religion and asymmetrical warfare within contemporary IDF combat units Nehemia Stern and Uzi Ben Shalom6. Doing one’s job: translating politics into military practice in the Norwegian mentoring mission to IraqKjetil Enstad7. ‘The perfect counterinsurgent’: reconsidering the case of Major Jim Gant David B. Edwards8. Francis FitzGerald’s Fire in the Lake, state legitimacy and anthropological insights on a revolutionary warPaul B. Rich9. Accidental ethnographers: the Islamic State’s tribal engagement experimentCraig Whiteside and Anas Elallame10. The anthropology of Al-Shabaab: the salient factors for the insurgency movement’s recruitment project Mohamed Haji Ingiriis