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Aug 28, 2009 · The first Human Terrain team deployed in 2007, and today there are roughly 20 teams in Iraq. In January, U.S. Central Command asked the project to more than double the number of teams it deploys to Afghanistan, from six to 13.
Feb 15, 2011 · ABSTRACT The advent of the U.S. Army's Human Terrain System (HTS) and the recruitment of anthropologists to provide “cultural knowledge” for the purpose of more effective counterinsurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan has created numerous conflicts and debates between HTS advocates and anthropological critics. These debates involve issues of ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Nov 26, 2012 · Human terrain is not a new concept; the need for understanding the behavior of adversaries and their culture, as well as that of the local populations with whom our military forces, diplomats, and aid organizations work, has been identified before: General Petraeus noted that “You have to understand not just what we call the military terrain ...
Oct 15, 2015 · Submitted to the faculty of Henley-Putnam University, this research paper is in. partial fulfillment of the requirements for SEC 750, The Strategic Communit y, and the Doctorate. in Strategic ...
