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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
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 · DOWNLOAD PDF. 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.
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Oct 1, 2017 · 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 Cultural Knowledge Network.
Feb 8, 2017 · Abstract. 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.
- Roberto J. González
- 2017
Dec 1, 2015 · Description. 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.
Feb 15, 2011 · ABSTRACT The advent of the U.S. Army's Human Terrain System (HTS) and the recruitment of anthropologists to provide “cultural knowledge” for the purpose of more effective counterinsurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan has created numerous conflicts and debates between HTS advocates and anthropological critics.
