Blending into the mindset of the Human Terrain

[slapout9]

Would it be too much to suggest that a lot of this emphasis has to do with the fact that in stability ops have a whole lot more in common with police and detention than they do with HIC ops?

Thus the necessity for such analytic practices as Human Terrain awareness.

Ron,It is police work 101 but we sure never called it Human Terrain Awareness(I thought that was girl watching)

You don't need 14 college degrees either. I know some double clutchin detectives that could run most intell ops with 3x5 cards and I don't think there is a college degree between the whole bunch of them. But if you ended up on there to do list....they would map your terrain alright

[Ron Humphrey]

In relation to both silly jargon and police 101.

To the first though it may be silly to the soldier how silly is it to those external actors involved both on the diplomatic and social areas of your operations?

On the second consisdering I still haven't managed to complete even the requisit BA I'm with ya 100% there.

However that said sometimes that particular radar is easily misdirected by emotional appeals to immediate perceptions and whole lot of time could be saved if the right questions were asked.

Finding what those are involves a little more than instinct.