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Feb 15, 2011 · To address this deficiency, the Human Terrain System (HTS) was created in 2006 as a means for units to better understand and leverage culture at the operational and tactical level.
Brian R Price. 2017. Article for Joint Force Quarterly, examining efforts by various DoD and Intelligence Community agencies to integrate socio-cultural knowledge in the wake of the disbanding of the Human Terrain System in 2014. Examines the risks associated with bringing such research "in-house" instead of engaging with academia.
Nov 20, 2008 · A member of the Army’s controversial Human Terrain project has been charged with second degree murder, for an alleged revenge killing in Afghanistan. Don Ayala supposedly shot Kandahar native ...
Jul 2, 2010 · So General David Petraeus is back on the COIN campaign trail arguing that pacifying the Human Terrain (HT) is his number one priority. Petraeus’ model program for converting an indigenous human terrain that is opposed to US occupation to a pliant human terrain has been the troublesome US Army Human Terrain System run out of TRADOC’s G-2 (Intelligence) unit.
Aug 7, 2009 · Expanding Human Terrain Systems? by John Stanton. ... and managing the US Army’s Human Terrain System (HTS). HTS is set to become a pivotal element, according to documentation, in other US ...
human terrain system soldiers and civilians speak with Afghans during key leader engagement in southern Kandahar Province. number of teams. In 2008, the program had. 30 percent attrition rate during training that effectively cost $7 million18 and meant. training cycle had to be about 50 percent larger than absolute demand.
Feb 15, 2011 · ABSTRACT The advent of the U.S. Army's Human Terrain System (HTS) and the recruitment of anthropologists to provide “cultural knowledge” for the purpose of more effective counterinsurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan has created numerous conflicts and debates between HTS advocates and anthropological critics. These debates involve issues of ...
