Gentlemen,

I suppose I should introduce myself real quick. I'm on the civilian faculty at the Naval Academy, where I'm the US Civil War specialist in the History Department. More broadly, I do nineteenth-century US military history. Anyhow, I also teach an unconventional warfare in Am. history course here (our department is also offering a more 20th-century orientated course in the Fall, we have also offered a Roman counterinsurgency warfare course, and Poli Sci has a Low-Intensity conflict course). Anyhow, I and some colleagues at USNA have been keeping an eye on stuff at this site, which is most interesting for obvious reasons.

Anyhow, does anyone know if Gonzalez is the same chap who wrote a piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education magazine on the same topic? As I recall, that article seemed to think that Dr. Kilcullen et al were only interested in anthropology in order to find ever more ingenious and villainous methods of torturing people. I'm working from home today, and I don't have immediate access to my photocopy of that piece. I'm sorry to say USNA does not have a subscription to Blackwell Synergy, or even the print journal, although I will try to dig it up the next time I'm at the Library of Congress. I'm happy that they did let Dr. McFate and Dr. Kilcullen respond, though.

Would anyone be willing to characterize the responses of Dr. McFate and Dr. Kilcullen?

WWSH