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  2. In 2010, the Network wrote an "Anthropologists' Statement on the Human Terrain System Program" to the United States House of Representatives, which was signed by over 700 anthropologists.

  3. Feb 15, 2011 · The Human Terrain System and Anthropology: A Review of Ongoing Public Debates - Forte - 2011 - American Anthropologist - Wiley Online Library.

    • Maximilian C. Forte
    • 2011
  4. Oct 31, 2007 · The U.S. military’s HTS project places anthropologists, as contractors with the U.S. military, in settings of war, for the purpose of collecting cultural and social data for use by the U.S. military. The ethical concerns raised by these activities include the following: 1. As military contractors working in settings of war, HTS ...

  5. 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. Although critics have written extensively about HTS struggles with internal mismanagement ...

  6. Feb 8, 2017 · 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. Anthropologists...

    • Roberto J. González
    • 2017
  7. Apr 4, 2018 · 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. The programme, which was among the most ...

  8. Aug 15, 2014 · 5 Mark C. Bartholf, ‘The Requirement for Sociocultural Understanding in Full Spectrum Operations’, Military Intelligence Professional Bulletin 37/4 (2011) pp.4–10; Montgomery McFate and Steve Fondacaro, ‘Reflections on the Human Terrain System during the First 4 Years’, PRISM 2/4 (2011) pp.63–82; Ben Connable, ‘All Our Eggs in a Broken Basket: How the Human Terrain System is ...