{"id":2636,"date":"2007-10-31T12:13:39","date_gmt":"2007-10-31T17:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2636"},"modified":"2007-10-31T12:13:39","modified_gmt":"2007-10-31T17:13:39","slug":"pilfered-scholarship-devastates-general-petraeuss-counterinsurgency-manual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2636","title":{"rendered":"Pilfered Scholarship Devastates General Petraeus&#8217;s Counterinsurgency Manual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/price10302007.html\">Pilfered Scholarship Devastates General Petraeus&#8217;s <em>Counterinsurgency Manual<\/em><\/a>&#8221; by David Price delivers the news that the widely lauded <em>Counterinsurgency Field Manual<\/em> (No. 3-24), published in December &#8217;06 by the US Army and Marine Corps and promoted as a strategy for victory in Iraq, is an amalgam of unacknowledged quotes. Price wonders how it ever passed &#8220;so briskly through the well-guarded gates&#8221; of Chicago University Press.<\/p>\n<p>Counterpunch editors, Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair, have decided to publish the report online despite its inclusion in the current edition of their subscriber-only newsletter, because as they put it, the &#8220;story merits the widest and swiftest circulation, not only as regards the &#8220;borrowings&#8221; from unacknowledged sources but also the prostitution of anthropology in evil military enterprises.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Pilfered Scholarship Devastates General Petraeus&#8217;s Counterinsurgency Manual&#8221; by David Price delivers the news that the widely lauded Counterinsurgency Field Manual (No. 3-24), published in December &#8217;06 by the US Army and Marine Corps and promoted as a strategy for victory &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2636\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-Gw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}