LEADER 05060nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910462919003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8014-6960-0 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801469602 035 $a(CKB)2670000000417879 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001034973 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11586786 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001034973 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11033584 035 $a(PQKB)10234516 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001496031 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138511 035 $a(DE-B1597)478708 035 $a(OCoLC)979740917 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801469602 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138511 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10742467 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL683503 035 $a(OCoLC)858659825 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000417879 100 $a20130315d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aArmed with expertise$b[electronic resource] $ethe militarization of American social research during the Cold War /$fJoy Rohde 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource $cillustrations (black and white) 225 0 $aAmerican institutions and society 300 $a"Published in association with the University of Virgina's Miller Center of Public Affairs." 311 $a1-322-52221-9 311 $a0-8014-4967-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction: Hearts, Minds, and Militarization --$t1. Creating the Gray Area: Scholars, Soldiers, and National Security --$t2. A Democracy of Experts: Knowledge and Politics in the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex --$t3. Deeper Shades of Gray: Ambition and Deception in Project Camelot --$t4. From Democratic Experts to "Automatic Cold Warriors": Dismantling the Gray Area in the Vietnam Era --$t5. Fade to Black: The Enduring Warfare State --$tEpilogue: Militarization without End? --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aDuring the height of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon launched a controversial counterinsurgency program called the Human Terrain System. The program embedded social scientists within military units to provide commanders with information about the cultures and grievances of local populations. Yet the controversy it inspired was not new. Decades earlier, similar national security concerns brought the Department of Defense and American social scientists together in the search for intellectual weapons that could combat the spread of communism during the Cold War. In Armed with Expertise, Joy Rohde traces the optimistic rise, anguished fall, and surprising rebirth of Cold War-era military-sponsored social research. Seeking expert knowledge that would enable the United States to contain communism, the Pentagon turned to social scientists. Beginning in the 1950's, political scientists, social psychologists, and anthropologists optimistically applied their expertise to military problems, convinced that their work would enhance democracy around the world. As Rohde shows, by the late 1960's, a growing number of scholars and activists condemned Pentagon-funded social scientists as handmaidens of a technocratic warfare state and sought to eliminate military-sponsored research from American intellectual life. But the Pentagon's social research projects had remarkable institutional momentum and intellectual flexibility. Instead of severing their ties to the military, the Pentagon's experts relocated to a burgeoning network of private consulting agencies and for-profit research offices. Now shielded from public scrutiny, they continued to influence national security affairs. They also diversified their portfolios to include the study of domestic problems, including urban violence and racial conflict. In examining the controversies over Cold War social science, Rohde reveals the persistent militarization of American political and intellectual life, a phenomenon that continues to raise grave questions about the relationship between expert knowledge and American democracy. 410 0$aAmerican institutions and society. 606 $aSocial sciences$xResearch$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aSociology, Military$xResearch$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aSocial sciences and state$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aCold War$xSocial aspects$zUnited States 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSocial sciences$xResearch$xHistory 615 0$aSociology, Military$xResearch$xHistory 615 0$aSocial sciences and state$xHistory 615 0$aCold War$xSocial aspects 676 $a300.72/073 700 $aRohde$b Joy$f1977-$01040272 712 02$aWhite Burkett Miller Center, 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910462919003321 996 $aArmed with expertise$92462994 997 $aUNINA