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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.
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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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Human Terrain Analysis Teams (HTAT) Human Terrain and Analysis Teams provide support to echelons of the US Army that are above brigade or regimental level (e.g., division or regional command).
- February 2007 – September 2014
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human terrain system soldiers and civilians speak with Afghans during key leader engagement in southern Kandahar Province. number of teams. In 2008, the program had. 30 percent attrition rate during training that effectively cost $7 million18 and meant. training cycle had to be about 50 percent larger than absolute demand.
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Oct 1, 2017 · Benefits. Sociocultural Analysis. HTS’s raison d’etre was the mapping of the human terrain. In the non- or semi-permissive environments that characterized Iraq and Afghanistan, trained professionals could uniquely and quickly offer qualitative exploratory research to combat units.
Nov 1, 2015 · As an experimental program, HTS needed a flexible, adaptable management structure that could accommodate the evolving nature of the program and enable control over personnel and human resources to produce Human Terrain Teams (HTTs).
