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Feb 24, 2012 · The findings in this chapter are the result of more than three years of experience with the Army’s Human Terrain System (HTS), an experimental program to provide sociocultural knowledge to military units in two theaters of war.
The SSRA management team develops the research plans for the local polling organi- zations, collects the results, provides initial analysis, and distributes the results to the theater headquarters, supported human terrain teams, and the reachback research cen- ters.
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.
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 ...
The deployed military swiftly recognized that understanding the “human terrain” was critical to accomplishing their mission and so an experimental program called the Human Terrain System that embedded teams of mixed military and civilian members with forces in Iraq and Afghanistan was launched.
Jan 6, 2021 · The Human Terrain Analysis (HTA) is a multidisciplinary scientific approach that describes and predicts the geospatial and temporal patterns of human behaviour by analysing the characteristics, reactions, and interactions of the human groups in their environment. A Human Terrain Product (HTP) is the result of an HTA.
Existing Army intelligence units have begun using “human terrain analysis” without conducting ethnographic research or recruiting civilian social scientists, while new units are competing for funding, such as the Socio-Cultural Research and Advisory Teams (SCRATs) to be employed by AFRICOM under different leadership and distinct guidelines ...
