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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 ...
- February 2007 – September 2014
- TRADOC
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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
- Christopher Sims
- 2015
Apr 1, 2009 · A report on an experimental Pentagon program that sends civilian anthropologists and other social scientists into the hardest-fought regions of Iraq and Afghanistan to gather information and advise soldiers about the local economy, tribal structures, cultural norms and other elements of the "human terrain". The program aims to improve U.S. military strategy and win hearts-and-minds battles, but faces ethical and practical challenges.
Feb 8, 2017 · The most expensive social science program in history—the US Army’s human terrain system (HTS)—has quietly come to an end. During its eight years of existence, the controversial program that can be seen as the paradigmatic institutional expression of counterinsurgency’s ‘local turn’ cost US tax payers more than $725 million.
Feb 4, 2016 · The Human Terrain System was ultimately a victim of its own success. Instead of creating five teams over two years, the mandate mutated into more than 20 teams . And so, many ill-equipped teams were put into theater where only a few could have reasonably completed these “ambiguous and dangerous” missions.
