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Feb 4, 2016 · The U.S. government’s controversial effort to harness the social sciences in support of its counterinsurgency operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, in an initiative known as the Human Terrain System, was one of the most ambitious and innovative efforts of the post-9/11 era to help warfighters make sense of conflict’s inherent chaos.
The deployed military swiftly recognized that understanding the “human terrain” was critical to accomplishing their mission and so an experimental program called the Human Terrain System that embedded teams of mixed military and civilian members with forces in Iraq and Afghanistan was launched.
In the words of one Special Forces officer: the Mapping the Human Terrain Toolkit (MAP– HT) to support analysis, storage, and retrieval of sociocultural information. During the first 4 years of its existence, HTS was surprisingly successful in address-ing the requirements of Army and Marine units downrange.
May 14, 2010 · Human Terrain System. 122 pages. September 2008. Human Terrain Teams (HTTs) are five- to nine-person teams deployed by the Human Terrain System (HTS) to support field commanders by filling their cultural knowledge gap in the current operating environment and providing cultural interpretations of events occurring within their area of operations.
A special initiative launched by the US Military, known as the Human Terrain System (HTS) project, sparked lively debates in the media and the anthropology community at large in fall 2007. The HTS program, which was launched in February 2007, embeds anthropologists and other social scientists in military teams in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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
Jun 29, 2015 · The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2015 allows the Army to carry out a “Pilot Program for the Human Terrain System. . .to support phase 0 shaping operations and the ...
