Editorial Board Member
Professor at the US Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island
As the senior social scientist, she helped develop the US Army’s Human Terrain System from a “good idea” to a $150 million-a-year Army program. McFate has held positions at RAND and the Institute for Defense Analyses and the US Navy’s Office of Naval Research, where she was awarded a distinguished public service award by the Secretary of the Navy. She has served on the Army Science Board and the Defense Science Board and was an instructor at the Johns Hopkins Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies.
Montgomery "Mitzy" McFate received a bachelor of arts from University of California, Berkeley, a PhD in anthropology from Yale University, and a juris doctorate from Harvard Law School. She is the editor of Social Science Goes to War (2015), and the author of Military Anthropology (2018). McFate was a key contributor to US Army Field Manual 3-24, Counterinsurgency and has published in such journals as Defense and Security Analysis, Journal of Small Wars & Insurgencies, and Joint Forces Quarterly.
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About Montgomery McFate
Professor at the US Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island
As the senior social scientist, she helped develop the US Army’s Human Terrain System from a “good idea” to a $150 million-a-year Army program. McFate has held positions at RAND and the Institute for Defense Analyses and the US Navy’s Office of Naval Research, where she was awarded a distinguished public service award by the Secretary of the Navy. She has served on the Army Science Board and the Defense Science Board and was an instructor at the Johns Hopkins Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies.
Montgomery "Mitzy" McFate received a bachelor of arts from University of California, Berkeley, a PhD in anthropology from Yale University, and a juris doctorate from Harvard Law School. She is the editor of Social Science Goes to War (2015), and the author of Military Anthropology (2018). McFate was a key contributor to US Army Field Manual 3-24, Counterinsurgency and has published in such journals as Defense and Security Analysis, Journal of Small Wars & Insurgencies, and Joint Forces Quarterly.
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