A paean to counterinsurgency.

• Author: Forte, Maximilian C.
• Position: Letters to the Editor - Letter to the editor

It was very surprising, and seemingly very much out of line for The Progressive , to see the article by Amy Yee in your June issue ("A Friend Falls in Afghanistan"). The article serves as a paean to the Human Terrain System, a counterinsurgency program that already has one known murder to its name, as Yee herself alluded to. It embeds social scientists to help refine targeting. Debates have been raging about this for about two, almost three, years now. Yee essentially gives her blessings to the program, because her dear friend served in it and had...