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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 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.
In the context of a war that is widely recognized as a denial of human rights and based on faulty intelligence and undemocratic principles, the Executive Board sees the HTS project as a problematic application of anthropological expertise, most specifically on ethical grounds.
Nov 1, 2015 · Security Studies. Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online. As earlier chapters discuss in detail, the Human Terrain System (HTS) was catapulted into existence by urgent operational needs for socio-cultural knowledge to inform the irregular warfare missions in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Dec 20, 2016 · The Human Terrain System (HTS) was a military programme that embedded small advisory teams in combat units during US military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. 1 The Human Terrain Team...
- Paul Joseph
- paul.joseph@tufts.edu
- 2016
Feb 4, 2016 · The U.S. government’s controversial effort to harness the social sciences in support of its counterinsurgency operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, in an initiative known as the Human Terrain System, was one of the most ambitious and innovative efforts of the post-9/11 era to help warfighters make sense of conflict’s inherent chaos.
Aug 18, 2015 · Human Terrain Teams, as Human Terrain System units were known, were supposed to include people with social-science backgrounds, language skills and an understanding of Afghan or Iraqi...
