Critics of militarization still collaborate across the political divide with former Pentagon officials.

Evidence

I also helped produce The Counter-Counterinsurgency Manual, a critical analysis of counterinsurgency strategy, war, and militarization. I coauthored the book with other members of the Network of Concerned Anthropologists. The NCA is a group that sought, on both ethical and military grounds, to oppose the Army’s attempts to recruit anthropologists as embedded and sometimes armed members of combat brigades in the Bush administration’s war on terror. On the other hand, in January 2012, I published an opinion piece in Defense News that was coauthored with Ray DuBois, the former Bush administration Pentagon official whom I quote in the present work. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 1085

Categorization

Category: Craft and Method

• XREF: The author’s dual engagement — opposing military anthropology while coauthoring with a former Bush Pentagon official — shows the bidirectional collaboration this book practices.
• SEED: Angle: the ethics and mechanics of cross-partisan coauthorship in policy research on militarization.