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Feb 8, 2017 · This chapter analyzes the rise and fall of the US Army’s human terrain system (HTS), which was created in 2006 and was terminated in 2014. It cost taxpayers at least $725 million, making it the most expensive social science program in history. Anthropologists...
HTS official website. 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 ...
- February 2007 – September 2014
- TRADOC
Ethnographic Intelligence: The Human Terrain System and Its Enduring Legacy Roberto J. González 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
- Roberto J. González
- 2017
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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. These early experiences had a lasting impact on the program., This issue includes an interview with Martin E. Dempsey, articles on 21st-Century Special ...
Jun 29, 2015 · June 29, 2015. The Rise and Fall of the Human Terrain System. by Roberto J. González. The most expensive social science program in history–the US Army’s Human Terrain System (HTS)–has...
Aug 16, 2013 · Newsweek Magazine. The Human Terrain System Sought to Transform the Army From Within. By Vanessa M. Gezari On 08/16/13 at 4:45 AM EDT. Marco Di Lauro/Getty. World. In 2007, a team of...
Dec 21, 2010 · Nearly five years after the Army began a controversial program to embed social scientists in combat units, the former director and chief bureaucratic force behind the program says that over a ...
