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Title The tender soldier : a true story of war and sacrifice / Vanessa M. Gezari.

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 General Collection  DS371.4123 .M35 2013    AVAILABLE
Description x, 347 pages : map ; 24 cm
Edition First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Note Includes bibliographical references (pages [231]-327) and index.
Contents Election day -- What you don't know will kill you -- The tender soldier -- Maiwand -- The anthropology of us and them -- Hearts and minds -- Crime and punishment -- Good intentions -- The devil you don't know.
Summary Part of the Pentagon's most daring and controversial attempt since Vietnam to bring social science to the Afghanistan battlefield, three tough-minded American civilians find their humanity tested and their lives forever changed by this little-known mission.
Subject Afghan War, 2001- -- Campaigns -- Afghanistan -- De Maywand Krz.
Loyd, Paula.
United States. Army. Human Terrain System.
Counterinsurgency -- Afghanistan -- De Maywand Krz.
Applied anthropology -- Afghanistan.
Anthropologists -- United States -- Biography.
Cooper, Clint.
Ayala, Don.
Applied anthropology -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States.
Social sciences -- Research -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States.
Biographies.
Standard # 9781439177396 (hardback)
1439177392 (hardback)

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