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Cine Politics on Press TV features a discussion of Human Terrain with host Russell Michaels, journalist and security expert in Iraq and Afghanistan James Denselow, and film critic for Time Out Dave Calhoun. In the program Michaels, Denselow and Calhoun analyze the documentary's major themes like the creation of "soldier diplomats", training programs for military
Human Terrain started out as a research project for the "Cultural Awareness and the Military Project" at the Watson Institute for International Studies. In 2005, Der Derian visited the March Air Reserve Base in Riverside, California , where he observed US Marine staff taking part in "cultural sensitivity" exercises. [1]
Apr 6, 2009 · Centered on the Human Terrain Team (HTT), the system is both comprehensive and discrete from any organic capability found in an infantry combat brigade (the targeted level of support). It injects ...
Seeking to understand 'why they hate us', the US military adopts a new strategy of cultural awareness to win over the hearts and minds of the Iraqi and Afghan people. Controversy erupts when academics embed with combat troops and the war comes home to the university.
Dec 4, 2009 · The report concludes a two-year investigation of HTS and other Department of Defense (DoD) programs that attempt to use anthropologists and anthropological research in military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Human Terrain traces all sides of the controversial effort to embed anthropologists and other social scientists with forward ...
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 ...
