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Jul 1, 2015 · The U.S. Army’s Human Terrain System (HTS), a program that embedded social scientists with deployed units, endured a rough start as it began deploying teams to Iraq and Afghanistan in 2007. 1 These early experiences had a lasting impact on the program.
Human Terrain Analysis Teams (HTAT) Human Terrain and Analysis Teams provide support to echelons of the US Army that are above brigade or regimental level (e.g., division or regional command).
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Mar 13, 2011 · Human terrain teams (HTTs) consist of five to nine personnel deployed by the HTS to support field commanders. HTTs fill the socio-cultural knowledge gap in the commander’s operational environment and interpret events in his AO.
Oct 1, 2017 · Sociocultural Analysis. HTS’s raison d’etre was the mapping of the human terrain. In the non- or semi-permissive environments that characterized Iraq and Afghanistan, trained professionals could uniquely and quickly offer qualitative exploratory research to combat units.
Dec 20, 2016 · This article reviews the promise and actual achievement of Human Terrain Teams (HTTs): the small groups of social scientists that were eventually embedded in every combat brigade in Iraq and...
- Paul Joseph
- paul.joseph@tufts.edu
- 2016
Nov 26, 2012 · Incorporating Human Geography into GEOINT can be used to support efforts to understand the human terrain. But what is ‘human terrain’? One definition describes human terrain as “the social, ethnographic, cultural, economic, and political elements of the people among whom a force is operating.”
Nov 1, 2015 · In addition to growing the number of HTTs, Human Terrain Analysis Teams (HTATs) were added to synchronize research and facilitate integration of social science research and analysis products at division level.
