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The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC), formerly known as the US Army School of the Americas,〔 is a United States Department of Defense Institute located at Fort Benning near Columbus, Georgia, that provides military training to government personnel in US-allied Latin American nations. The school was founded in 1946 and from 1961 was assigned the specific goal of teaching "anti-communist counterinsurgency training," a role which it would fulfill for the rest of the Cold War.〔 In this period, it educated several Latin American dictators, generations of their military and, during the 1980s, included the uses of torture in its curriculum. In 2000/2001, the institute was renamed to WHINSEC.〔 ==History== The US Army School of the Americas was founded in 1946 and originally located at Fort Gulick in the Panama Canal Zone. In 1984 the school was expelled from Panama under the terms of the Panama Canal Treaty. From 1961 (during the Kennedy administration), the School was assigned the specific Cold War goal of teaching "anti-communist" counterinsurgency training to military personnel of Latin American countries.〔 At the time and in those places, "communists" was, in the words of anthropologist Lesley Gill, "... an enormously elastic category that could accommodate almost any critic of the status quo."〔 During this period, Colombia supplied the largest number of students from any client country.〔 As the Cold War drew to a close around 1990, United States foreign policy shifted focus from "anti-communism" to the War on Drugs, with ''narcoguerillas'' replacing "communists".〔 This term was later replaced by "the more ominous sounding 'terrorist'".〔 In 1999, the School of the Americas website said in its FAQ section, "Many of the () critics supported Marxism -- Liberation Theology -- in Latin America -- which was defeated with the assistance of the U.S. Army." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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