Army Enlists Anthropology in War Zones:  
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/05/world/asia/05afghan.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin

at least it's a coherent idea.  What I would be concerned about is coordination - it's one thing when you have isolated villages, but when you have major cities and high volumes of traffic, you will need an anthropological bureaucracy attached onto the Army.  

In Vietnam, they often tried attaching a 5th staff section, civil affairs, but they never got anthropologists in there, nor took a methodical approach like an academic or market researcher would.  Of course, ALL OF THAT depends on working language fluency across a wide spectrum of ranks, and a lot of the Afghan forces are special forces, etc, not the line units with different people and organization that you see in Iraq.

And of course, the best plan on the ground can always be fucked by asshole chest-beating leadership that needs a fucking body count.  And it only solves the tactical problem on the ground, it still doesn't teach The Decider how to make a half-assed intelligent decision, or keep him from shooting us in the balls.