Showing posts with label human-terrain-system. Show all posts
Showing posts with label human-terrain-system. Show all posts
Sunday, October 23, 2016

Social Scientists and the Military - Collaboration Needed?

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A U.S. military officer at West Point's Modern War Institute, Jonathan Bate, has wrote an article about the need for the military and ac...
Sunday, March 13, 2016

Helmand Province

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Helmand Province - District by District.  The fight for Helmand province over the past decade has been one of the most costly for both the...

Defense News

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U.S. Defense Spending Woes.  A recent news story by Matthew Gault examines the national defense stance of the presidential candidates ...
Sunday, February 21, 2016

Human Terrain System (HTS) - In the News Again

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The Human Terrain System or HTS is under attack once again. From my point of view, having worked with the Human Terrain Teams (HTTs) depl...
Sunday, January 3, 2016

U.S. Aid Worker Killed in Afghanistan

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Photo from "Lisa Akbari Foundation" Facebook A U.S. aid worker was killed in Kabul by an Afghan man. Lisa Akbari, an Afghan-A...
Sunday, December 13, 2015

Report - Human Terrain System

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Dr. Christopher Sims has wrote a 526 page report entitled The Human Terrain System: Operationally Relevant Social Science Research in Iraq a...
Sunday, August 23, 2015

Quiet Demise of the Human Terrain System

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The  Human Terrain Teams  or HTTs deployed to Afghanistan did some great work; at least in my view - having spent parts of every year from...
Sunday, August 16, 2015

COIN and Social Psychology

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A new manual recently published is entitled Trust, Attitudes, and Social Influence: The Cross-Cultural Social Psychology of Counterinsurgenc...
Sunday, August 2, 2015

Rebranding Human Terrain System

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Lots of articles have recently appeared about the demise of the Human Terrain System (HTS). There are some very strong critics of the prog...
Sunday, July 19, 2015

Demise of the Human Terrain System (HTS)

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A slew of news reports and articles explore the rise and fall of the  Human Terrain System (HTS)  - see news reports by Counterpunch  and ...
Thursday, October 2, 2014

Army and the Human Elements of War

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The Army is conducting an analysis of the Afghan and Iraq wars with the intent of discovering why they did not go well for the U.S. military...
Thursday, February 27, 2014

Paper - Cultural Intelligence and COIN

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A paper has recently been published on Small Wars Journal  entitled "Some Recent Approaches to Cultural Intelligence Gathering" da...
Friday, January 24, 2014

Human Aspects in Afghanistan Handbook

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The NATO HUMINT Centre of Excellence has published a valuable reference on the human terrain of Afghanistan. Human Aspects in Afghanistan ...
Friday, January 3, 2014

Cost of Human Terrain Teams (HTTs)

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According to newly released budget figures the U.S. military has spent a lot of money ($746M since 2007) on sending social scientists (as me...
Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Human Terrain System - BAE Systems Failed Article Says

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The BAE Systems contract for the Army providing staffers for the Human Terrain System (HTS) has been spotlighted by a recent news article.  ...