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  1. Background. In the most immediate sense, HTS was developed as a response to concerns about mismanagement of US military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and, in particular, to the negative effects of recognized "deficiencies" in US military "cultural understanding" of these countries.

  2. 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 ...

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  4. 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.

  5. Aug 15, 2014 · 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. It investigates the history of the term and its evolution from anthropological foundations to human geography and geospatial intelligence.

    • Richard M. Medina
    • 2016
  6. Feb 8, 2017 · Abstract. This chapter analyzes the rise and fall of the US Army’s human terrain system (HTS), which was created in 2006 and was terminated in 2014. It cost taxpayers at least $725 million, making it the most expensive social science program in history.

    • Roberto J. González
    • 2017
  7. 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

  8. Oct 1, 2017 · The U.S. Army’s Human Terrain System (HTS) was created in 2007 amid fears of defeat in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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