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Feb 18, 2010 · Mr. Nigh relies on his extensive experience as a Human Terrain Team Advisor to create an insightful analysis of the opportunities and challenges associated with the use of the Human Terrain System in Afghanistan. This case study was created for three key purposes: first, to explore how HTT advisors help military commanders enhance operational
Feb 4, 2016 · The U.S. government’s controversial effort to harness the social sciences in support of its counterinsurgency operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, in an initiative known as the Human Terrain System, was one of the most ambitious and innovative efforts of the post-9/11 era to help warfighters make sense of conflict’s inherent chaos.
Feb 8, 2017 · Over the next few years, more than 30 human terrain teams (HTTs) were deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the program’s annual budget exploded to more than $150 million. Then in 2014, an odd thing happened. News reports and official statements about HTS virtually disappeared. Its slick website was no longer updated.
May 1, 2010 · The Army began the Human Terrain System project in 2006 to help U.S. forces and allies in Iraq and Afghanistan conduct counter-insurgency operations, said U.S. Army 1st Lt. Raphael Howard, a ...
Jan 12, 2009 · Cells will include personnel with expertise in "human terrain, all-source and Geo-spatial analysis." A second socio-cultural cell will stand up within six months.
In the words of one Special Forces officer: the Mapping the Human Terrain Toolkit (MAP– HT) to support analysis, storage, and retrieval of sociocultural information. During the first 4 years of its existence, HTS was surprisingly successful in address-ing the requirements of Army and Marine units downrange.
Oct 19, 2011 · Bowers worked with the U.S. Central Command's human terrain analysis branch, which is separate from the Army's Human Terrain System (HTS), a better known program that embeds social scientists in ...