Introduction: exploring military anthropology. -- Archaeological ethics and working for the military. -- "Living the dream": one military anthropologist's initiation. -- A day in the life of the marine corps professor of operational culture. -- The road turnley took. -- Pebbles in the headwaters: working within military intelligences. -- Ethnicity and shifting identity: the importance of cultural specialists in US military operations. -- Master narratives, retrospective attribution, and ritual pollution in anthropology's engagements with the military.

1. Military ethics
2. Applied anthropology
3. anthropological ethics
4. War and society