As always, Savage Minds comes up with some of the most interesting () questions...

Montgomery’s Minerva?

Pure speculation. Does Montgomery McFate have the ear of Robert Gates, US Secretary of Defense? I was jumping around some sites related to the HTS discussion when I noticed the following quotes from a summary of a presentation that McFate gave {in May 2007} on ‘The Cultural Knowledge Gap and Its Consequences for National Security.

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Given the comments, I suspect that Mongomery is getting heartily sick and tired of all the fooforah. As Oneman noted in his comment (), "anthropology has managed a lot of amazing things in the last 40 years, without military help" and this is quite true, it has. Of course, getting rid of the four square model that used to dominate the field, making the discipline increasingly irrelevant to lived reality, and driving away potential students are not things I would want to brag about .