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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 understanding of the local population (i.e. the "human ...
- February 2007 – September 2014
- TRADOC
Jul 23, 2013 · This book is an unedited compilation of pieces that Free-lance reporter John Stanton has written on the U.S. Army's controversial Human Terrain System (HTS) between 2008 and early 2013. As the sub-title suggests, Stanton is unremittingly critical of the HTS Program.
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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 ...
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Oct 1, 2017 · 2 Michael C. Davies, “Institutional Failure: USA Today and the Human Terrain System,” Small Wars Journal, March 28, 2016. 3 John Stanton published a wide range of critiques of the Human Terrain System (HTS) on political Web sites such as Zero Anthropology, Cryptome, Intelligence Daily, and Pravda. He continues to publish on the Global ...
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.
- Roberto J. González
- 2017
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
Brian R Price. 2017. Article for Joint Force Quarterly, examining efforts by various DoD and Intelligence Community agencies to integrate socio-cultural knowledge in the wake of the disbanding of the Human Terrain System in 2014. Examines the risks associated with bringing such research "in-house" instead of engaging with academia.
