I think it is probably a good time to point out, that as currently configured, HTS teams' primary mission is to provide overlap of ethnographic information between rotations.
Originally, HTS was supposed to be a computer system, but it failed, miserably. The teams were conceived as an analog way to pass ethnographic information from one rotation to another.
Apparently, the system has grown bigger than that, but it's conception was a reaction to the Army's inability to properly do a battle handoff with the inhabitants of their "battle space".
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