Combat anthropologist: Charles T. R. Bohannan, counter-insurgency pioneer, 1936-1966

Jason S. Ridler

Small Wars and Insurgencies, 2020, vol. 31, issue 2, 267-285

Abstract: Charles T. R. Bohannan was an instrumental figure in US successes in counter-insurgency in the immediate post-war era. These successes were not just vested in his wartime combat experience, but his pre-war training in archeology and anthropology. Brilliant, tough, and eccentric, Bohannan parlayed his extensive work with foreign and distant cultures into a view of guerrilla warfare that bolstered US successes in the Philippines and Vietnam, alongside his more celebrated boss Edward Lansdale. Here, we see how Bohannan’s view of war, culture, and statehood were impacted by a career among Native Americans, ancient peoples, and challenging orthodoxy at every turn.

Date: 2020
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