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The Human Terrain System (HTS) was a United States Army, Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) support program employing personnel from the social science disciplines – such as archaeology, anthropology, sociology, political science, historians, regional studies, and linguistics – to provide military commanders and staff with an ...
Jul 1, 2015 · DOWNLOAD PDF. 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.
Oct 1, 2017 · The U.S. Army’s Human Terrain System (HTS) was created in 2007 amid fears of defeat in Iraq and Afghanistan. Responding to clear needs expressed by military leadership, HTS was offered as an experimental effort to embed academic social scientists with Army and Marine Corps units to dramatically increase local sociocultural knowledge on the ...
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This article identifies HTS management challenges with an in-depth history of the program and provides an inter-nal assessment of HTT performance based on 10 key small-team performance factors.5 Any study of HTTs must address the criteria for evaluating their performance.
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Dec 20, 2016 · The Human Terrain System (HTS) was a military programme that embedded small advisory teams in combat units during US military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. 1 The Human Terrain...
- Paul Joseph
- paul.joseph@tufts.edu
- 2016
Nov 1, 2015 · Abstract. This final chapter reviews the sociocultural knowledge requirements that resulted from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, noting the limitations of the military's in-house capabilities, and the resultant need for HTS. The chapter reviews HTS and why it was developed; what HTT social scientists did; what was learned; how it was used ...
Apr 4, 2018 · This article provides a brief critical history of the Human Terrain System (HTS), a US Army counterinsurgency programme designed to embed anthropologists and other social scientists with combat brigades in Iraq and Afghanistan.
