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Nov 1, 2015 · The Human Terrain System (HTS) was catapulted into existence in 2006 by the US military's urgent need for knowledge of the human dimension of the battlespace in Iraq and Afghanistan. Its centrepiece was embedded groups of mixed military and civilian personnel, known as Human Terrain Teams (HTTs), whose mission was to conduct social science ...
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 ...
May 1, 2010 · Human terrain analysts are the Army's social cartographers whose "maps" are meticulously drawn from their interactions with locals. The Army began the Human Terrain System project in 2006 to help ...
Background. The Human Terrain Team AF-6, assigned to the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Battalion and co-located with British forces in Lashkar Gah, has been requested by these forces to provide insight on Pashtun cultural traditions regarding male sexuality for reasons of enhanced baseline cultural understanding for improved interaction as well as ...
Human terrain is often contrasted with geophysical ter-rain – a familiar concept for senior officers trained for conventional warfare against the Soviets. It implies that 21st-century warriors will fight ‘population-centric’ wars (Kilcullen 2007); therefore, the key to successful warfare is the control of people.
Apr 5, 2010 · As part of the U.S. counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan, the military is using cultural and human behavior research gathered by a Pentagon-run program called Human Terrain System. Some ...
Knowledge focused on human terrain and consisting of social scientists with ‘strong connections to the services and combatant commands’ (McFate and Jackson 2005: 20). They suggested providing: 1. ‘on-the-ground ethnographic research (interviews and participant observation)’ on the Middle East, Central Asia, and other strategi-
