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Foreign Affairs
February 4, 2016
Human Terrain Teams, which blended civilian academics with military personnel, were intended to help soldiers better understand the battlefield. Attached to front-line military units, teams would provide information on the cultures, customs, and practices of local communities—otherwise known as theÃÂ ...
New York Times
August 18, 2015
Human Terrain Teams, as Human Terrain System units were known, were supposed to include people with social-science backgrounds, language skills and ... Two days earlier, another member of the Human Terrain Team casually told a sergeant that he could have sex with me if he gave the team memberÃÂ ...
Foreign Policy (blog)
July 28, 2015
Eventually deployed with Army and Marine units in Iraq and Afghanistan, these civilian-military partners were known as Human Terrain Teams, or HTTs. ... One commander in Afghanistan said last year that after working with a Human Terrain Team, the number of armed strikes he had to make declinedÃÂ ...
War on the Rocks
July 13, 2015
The Human Terrain System (HTS) – a U.S. Army program aimed at helping U.S. and allied military forces understand the people around them in Iraq and Afghanistan – is dead. And anthropologists are dancing ritualistically around its corpse. The idea behind HTS was simple and promising: embed socialÃÂ ...
CounterPunch
June 29, 2015
A small but vocal group of military officers publicly criticized the program, noting that it was “undermining sustainable military cultural competence” (Connable 2009) and that in practice, “the effectiveness of the HTTs [human terrain teams] was dubious at best” (Gentile 2013). Yet despite these criticisms, theÃÂ ...
Wired News
May 20, 2010
Ostensibly, these Human Terrain Teams should be out, canvassing the local population to gauge their interests, feelings, and preferences. ... In the case of Nuristan, it seems clear that tighter integration with the human terrain team could have possibly prevented some needless deaths, and at the very leastÃÂ ...
Foreign Policy
September 8, 2009
Enter the Human Terrain Teams (HTTs). Remember them? The idea was born a few years back, when higher-ups in the U.S. military establishment (and outside it) realized that troops in the field often seemed to be blind to the cultural particulars of the environments they were operating in. In his hugelyÃÂ ...
Wired News
January 12, 2009
... most useful; Fondacaro has visited AFRICOM as a preliminary step towards setting up human terrain teams there. Interestingly, though, the AFRICOM job description is for a "socio-cultural cell," not a human terrain team. Is there some re-branding at work here? Or might the two projects work side-by-side?
New York Times
October 5, 2007
Tracy, who asked that her surname not be used for security reasons, is a member of the first Human Terrain Team, an experimental Pentagon program that assigns anthropologists and other social scientists to American combat units in Afghanistan and Iraq. Her team's ability to understand subtle points ofÃÂ ...
Chicago Tribune
November 6, 2017
... during Bosnian War; US Defense Department Social Science advisor to Human Terrain Team in Iraqi Freedom 2006 and 2008; Killed in Iraq ...
Foreign Affairs
February 4, 2016
Human Terrain Teams, which blended civilian academics with military personnel, were intended to help soldiers better understand the ...
New York Times
August 18, 2015
Ted Callahan, a United States Army Human Terrain Team social ... Human Terrain Teams, as Human Terrain System units were known, were ...
Foreign Policy (blog)
July 28, 2015
... these civilian-military partners were known as Human Terrain Teams, ... that after working with a Human Terrain Team, the number of armed ...
CounterPunch
June 29, 2015
Over the next few years, more than 30 “human terrain teams” (HTTs) were deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the program's annual budget ...
Men's Journal
June 25, 2013
"We didn't even know what a 'human terrain team' was until you called ... The idea behind human terrain teams, or HTTs, is to put a small army ...
Wired News
May 20, 2010
Ostensibly, these Human Terrain Teams should be out, canvassing the .... clear that tighter integration with the human terrain team could have ...
Foreign Policy
September 8, 2009
Even at its friendliest, Afghanistan is a bewildering place, a dizzying farrago of tribes, customs, and ethnicities. Enter the Human Terrain Teams ...
Wired Blogs (blog)
August 31, 2009
070531-A-9307C-012 The Human Terrain System, the Army's social-science program, has seen pay cuts, tragedy – and an exodus of talent.
Inside Higher Ed
February 19, 2009
Adam L. Silverman, a social science advisor to the U.S. Army program, which embeds academics with brigade combat teams, explains what he ...
smallwarsjournal (blog)
May 12, 2008
It is with deep sorrow that we must inform you of the tragic death of Michael Bhatia, our social scientist team member assigned to the ...
Jordan Times
October 16, 2016
... are many cases where more radical and sophisticated practices and technologies were first field-tested in the colonies - census, fingerprint, Hiide, drones, human terrain teams are all applied to the non-Western other - before then being shipped ...
Eurasia Review
September 2, 2016
SGTIAs in Afghanistan reportedly were large and diverse owing to the numerous requirements associated with operating there, which included everything from indirect fire to human terrain teams. The GTIAs and SGTIAs in Mali were smaller and in fact did ...
CSS Resources (blog)
August 16, 2016
SGTIAs in Afghanistan reportedly were large and diverse owing to the numerous requirements associated with operating there, which included everything from indirect fire to human terrain teams. The GTIAs and SGTIAs in Mali were smaller and in fact did ...
Foreign Policy (blog)
June 1, 2016
He is the co-author of Human Terrain Teams: An Organizational Innovation for Sociocultural Knowledge in Irregular Warfare and co-editor of Changing Mindsets to Transform Security: Leader Development for an Unpredictable and Complex World.
Richmond Register
May 1, 2016
From 2008 to 2009, she worked as a social scientist on a human terrain team in Baghdad. Human terrain teams were established by the U.S.
smallwarsjournal (blog)
February 7, 2016
Human Terrain Teams, which blended civilian academics with military personnel, were intended to help soldiers better understand the battlefield.
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