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Nov 1, 2015 · The vastness of a BCT’s area of responsibility led to teams being split up. More team members with the right skills were required. In addition to growing the number of HTTs, Human Terrain Analysis Teams (HTATs) were added to synchronize research and facilitate integration of social science research and analysis products at division level.
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Inception to Government Transition.HTS was developed as a response to concerns about mismanagement of U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, in particular the lack of cultural understanding of these countries demonstrated by the U.S. military. Soldiers, commanded by leaders with limited cross-cultural experience, were being asked to navi...
Centralizing Support for Deployed Civilians. While poor management limited HTS during its early years, the program was also hindered by DOD’s ineffective civilian deployment system. The U.S. military is capable when deploying uniformed Servicemembers, but its civilian deployment process is minimal and poorly integrated. For small organizations, or ...
For a detailed account of Human Terrain System (HTS) history, see Christopher J. Lamb et al., Human Terrain Teams: An Organizational Innovation for Sociocultural Knowledge in Irregular Warfare(Wash...Ibid., 147. Lamb et al. reference three types of Human Terrain Team (HTT) members: “ne’er-do-wells,” “fantasists,” and “workers.” While these categories are crude, they are also quite accurate. Wit...It is important to note that timecard exploitation was routine for civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan. To HTS’s credit, team members never approached the excesses of deployed Department of Justice e...Lamb et al., 73–74.People also ask
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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.
Oct 1, 2017 · Benefits. Sociocultural Analysis. HTS’s raison d’etre was the mapping of the human terrain. In the non- or semi-permissive environments that characterized Iraq and Afghanistan, trained professionals could uniquely and quickly offer qualitative exploratory research to combat units.
Feb 18, 2009 · The three most important elements of COIN are 1) to empower the lowest level (the population), 2) to work from the bottom up (the population) and 3) nonlethal operations accomplish more than lethal ones. In a nutshell, my job is to keep the population, the effects of military operations on the population, and nonlethal options front and center ...
Feb 1, 2020 · This chapter provides guidance leveraging the human factors literature base, a discipline concerned with understanding and improving human performance in complex systems and a longstanding history of application to improving patient safety in the health care setting.
Feb 8, 2017 · 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 paradigmatic institutional expression of counterinsurgency’s ‘local turn’ cost US tax payers more than $725 million.
