Cultural Knowledge Education

Abstract

Cultural awareness training is inadequate in current and future conflicts which require education in cultural knowledge through immersion, interaction, and integration. Soldiers and marines, warfighters, must have the ability to operate within foreign cultures that are significantly different. Enemy that operate within a foreign population have inherent cultural advantages. Education in cultural knowledge mitigates those advantages.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 20, 2009
Accession Number
ADA509933

Entities

People

  • Justin Zevenbergen

Organizations

  • Marine Corps University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Department Of Defense
  • Education
  • Foreign Languages
  • Language
  • Marine Corps
  • Middle East
  • Military Advisors
  • Military Training
  • Political Science
  • Psychology
  • Social Sciences
  • Sociology
  • Switching
  • Training
  • United States
  • Warfare
  • Weapon Systems

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