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  1. 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 ...

    • February 2007 – September 2014
    • TRADOC
  2. Jan 6, 2021 · The Human Terrain Analysis (HTA) is a multidisciplinary scientific approach that describes and predicts the geospatial and temporal patterns of human behaviour by analysing the characteristics, reactions, and interactions of the human groups in their environment. A Human Terrain Product (HTP) is the result of an HTA.

  3. 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 ...

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  5. Oct 1, 2017 · The U.S. Army’s Human Terrain System (HTS) was created in 2007 amid fears of defeat in Iraq and Afghanistan. Responding to clear needs expressed by military leadership, HTS was offered as an experimental effort to embed academic social scientists with Army and Marine Corps units to dramatically increase local sociocultural knowledge on the ...

  6. Aug 15, 2014 · Human terrain is a complicated term. It has been plagued with controversy in recent years stemming from US Army implementations in the Middle East. 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.

    • Richard M. Medina
    • 2016
  7. Oct 15, 2015 · in Strategic Security Program. Contact Stephen Norgard at snorgard@stu.henley-putnam.edu for. correspondence regarding this paper. HUMAN TERRAIN SYSTEM 2. The Human Terrain System: History ...

  8. Oct 25, 2018 · This clever map visualizes Earth's population as a 'human terrain'. Watch the rise and fall of major population hubs. Population density data has been visualized in a million and one ways, but the ...

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