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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 ...
Background. In the most immediate sense, HTS was developed as a response to concerns about mismanagement of US military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and, in particular, to the negative effects of recognized "deficiencies" in US military "cultural understanding" of these countries.
- February 2007 – September 2014
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Oct 15, 2015 · in Strategic Security Program. Contact Stephen Norgard at snorgard@stu.henley-putnam.edu for. correspondence regarding this paper. HUMAN TERRAIN SYSTEM 2. The Human Terrain System: History ...
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.
- Roberto J. González
- 2017
Aug 15, 2014 · This paper reviews the history of human terrain in three forms: as a human behavioral concept, a conflict based application, and a multidisciplinary area of research. It investigates the history of the term and its evolution from anthropological foundations to human geography and geospatial intelligence.
- Richard M. Medina
- 2016
Nov 1, 2015 · As an experimental program, HTS needed a flexible, adaptable management structure that could accommodate the evolving nature of the program and enable control over personnel and human resources to produce Human Terrain Teams (HTTs).
Apr 4, 2018 · Read this article. This article provides a brief critical history of the Human Terrain System (HTS), a US Army counterinsurgency programme designed to embed anthropologists and other social scientists with combat brigades in Iraq and Afghanistan.
