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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 understanding of the local population (i.e. the "human ...
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. These early experiences had a lasting impact on the program., This issue includes an interview with Martin E. Dempsey, articles on 21st-Century Special ...
Jul 13, 2015 · Geopoliticus. The Seven Deadly Sins of the Human Terrain System: An Insider’s Perspective. Ryan Evans. July 13, 2015. The Human Terrain System (HTS) – a U.S. Army program aimed at helping U.S. and allied military forces understand the people around them in Iraq and Afghanistan – is dead.
Feb 8, 2017 · And later in the same chapter: ‘The Human Terrain System lied to the public and to its own employees and contract staff about the nature of its work in Afghanistan […] [it] would prove less controversial for what it did than for its sheer incompetence’ (ibid.: 192).
- Roberto J. González
- 2017
Apr 4, 2018 · Read this article. 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. It lasted from 2007 to 2015 and at its peak employed more than 500 people.
- Roberto J. González
- 2020
Oct 15, 2015 · PDF | On Oct 15, 2015, Stephen Norgard published The Human Terrain System: History, Applicability, and Controversy | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate.
Aug 15, 2014 · Human terrain is a complicated term. It has been plagued with controversy in recent years stemming from US Army implementations in the Middle East. This paper reviews the history of human terrain in three forms: as a human behavioral concept, a conflict based application, and a multidisciplinary area of research.
