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U.S. Army (Canaan Radcliffe) Kuchi Village local speaks with Human Terrain Team members in Kandahar Province Reflections on the Human Terrain System During the First 4 Years BY MONTGOMERY MCFATE AND STEVE FONDACARO T he 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 ...
Human terrain information is of no use to the unit unless it is integrated into the continuous planning and decision making processes. The team must be tied into all planning processes, including relevant working groups, assessment boards, etc. that can utilize human terrain data and socio-cultural awareness. Sources of Human Terrain Information
their failure to study the human terrain… Che Guevara’s ill-conceived Bolivian campaign was the supreme example of these deficiencies’ (Moss 1972: 154). Contemporary human terrain studies date back seven years, when retired US Army Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Peters published ‘The human terrain of urban operations’ (2000).
Sep 1, 2011 · PRISM 2, no. 4 PRISM 2, no. 4 FEATURES | 63 by the actions of FARC. Necessarily, they involved themselves in criminality for funding and ultimately proved every bit as vicious as FARC in their behavior among the populace. Though often portrayed by activists as government auxiliaries, there were no formal links between the state and these criminal elements. 12 Recently during a press conference ...
Since 2005, the U.S. Army has developed and implemented the Human Terrain System (HTS) Project as part of the U.S. counterinsurgency strategy in the Middle East. HTS deploys teams of social scientists to areas of conflict to develop social and cultural understanding of local populations as an aid to military decision-making.
Dec 1, 2015 · The Human Terrain System embedded civilians primarily in brigade combat teams (BCTs) in Iraq and Afghanistan between 2007 and 2014 to act as a collection and dispersal mechanism for sociocultural comprehension. Set against the backdrop of the program’s evolution, the experiences of these social scientists clarifies the U.S. Army’s decision to integrate social scientists at the tactical ...
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