An Enhanced Plan For Regionally Aligning Brigades Using Human Terrain Systems
An Enhanced Plan For Regionally Aligning Brigades Using Human Terrain Systems
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See what nice mess David stirred up LOL
Good column Brant. I was just responding because I am interested in HTS and looked at the book to see if I might want to buy a copy (hardcopy or Kindle is practically the same price on Amazon:)), Obviously, I don't want to spend the almost $6....
Gee Marc, it is great to see you on the Council again. Course, I have been absent somewhat myself so it is a case of the pot calling the kettle....
My suspicion is that some of the issues with HTS have to do with the fact that the mainstream anthro community wants no part of the military - most anybody's - and this, among other things, hampered recruiting for the program. But what do I know?
Cheers
JohnT
Human Terrain & Anthropology (merged thread)
A Newsweek article copied from SWJ Blog:When the Eggheads Went to War
Army Kills Controversial Social Science Program
Last month the DoD announced it had quietly closed the Human Terrain System, this SWJBlog thread includes that and a spirited set of comments:http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/arm...cience-program
There is a related SWJournal article that refers to HTS too, on the academic-miltary relationship:http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art...-the-sof-enter
A quick search using 'terrain' found a number of Blog & Journal articles that may include 'human terrain'.
The Human Terrain System: An Insider’s Perspective
Hat tip to WoTR for the pointer to a FPRI article by a former HTS member, Ryan Evans; the full title is 'The Seven Deadly Sins of the Human Terrain System: An Insider’s Perspective'. See:http://www.fpri.org/geopoliticus/201...rs-perspective
There is an old RFI that appears to be by the author of this 2013 defence of HTS:http://www.e-ir.info/2013/09/21/the-...-gian-gentile/
Moderator's Note
This thread contains a number of previously stand-alone threads and seven small ones were merged in today. I have left RFI threads on terrain alone. The thread has been re-opened to enable a new post and capturing the announcement recently that the programme was being ended (Ends).