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- The Human Terrain program represents the most audacious attempt to combine the strength of the military with the wisdom of the soft sciences since Vietnam. But critics say that social scientists working alongside military units violate ethical strictures and could put local civilians at risk.
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Jul 6, 2015 · Most leaders in anthropology opposed the Human Terrain System, and Inside Higher Ed was unable to reach a defender of the program on Monday. But in a 2009 essay, one participant, Adam L. Silverman, wrote that critics failed to see the good the program was doing for people who lived in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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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.
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.
- Paul Joseph
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- 2016
HTTs are small, cross-functional teams of specially trained military officers, research managers, and civilian social scientists that are typically appended to brigade-sized units. If HTTs do their job well, they can advise commanders on how to win popular support and isolate insurgents.
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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 ...
Ethnographic Intelligence: The Human Terrain System and Its Enduring Legacy Roberto J. González The most expensive social science program in history—the US Army’s human terrain system (HTS)—has quietly come to an end. During its eight years of existence, the controversial program that can be seen as the
The Human Terrain System (HTS) is a U.S. Army program that recruits, trains, and deploys mixed military and civilian Human Terrain Teams (HTTs), which embed with military units in Iraq and Afghanistan.
