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Declaring the U.S. Army’s Human Terrain System a Success: Rereading the CNA Report

[First, many thanks to John Stanton for notifying us of the release of the report discussed below, available here, and for his article. Here I take a somewhat different approach in describing and inte… more →

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New report on Human Terrain Systems (HTS) — 1 comment

Jeremy wrote 2 months ago: A new report on the Human Terrain System (HTS) appears in the Military Intelligence Professional Bul … more →

Tags: Security, GEOINT, Surveillance, hts

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yipimoot wrote 12 months ago: The event planner on Joan River’s team quit? Right while watching audiences on the most popular Tele … more →

Tags: Administrata, Galaxie 500, markus, Pacman Jones, Teaching/Learning

Congress' Human Terrain Assessment Vanishes: Politically Charged Study Withdrawn from Military Website

defensebaseactcomp wrote 1 year ago: by John Stanton at Crytome The Center for Naval Analyses report (CNAR) on the US Army’s Human … more →

Tags: Contractor Casualties, Pentagon, Civilian contractors, Safety and Security Issues, - Afghanistan (2), Iraq, hts, osd, tradoc

Declaring the U.S. Army’s Human Terrain System a Success: Rereading the CNA Report — 3 comments

Maximilian Forte wrote 1 year ago: [First, many thanks to John Stanton for notifying us of the release of the report discussed below, a … more →

Tags: colonialism/imperialism, Human Terrain Teams, american anthropological association, htt, hts, BAE Systems, Anthropology, anthropology and counterinsurgency, HASC

Congressionally Mandated Report of the U.S. Army Human Terrain System: Center for Naval Analyses Investigation is Online — 16 comments

John Stanton wrote 1 year ago: The Center for Naval Analyses report (CNAR) on the US Army’s Human Terrain System (HTS) is available … more →

Tags: colonialism/imperialism, Human Terrain Teams, htt, hts, Center for Naval Analyses

UK NGO Seeks U.S. Army Funding: Somalia Opportunity, Shadow Anthropology — 4 comments

John Stanton wrote 1 year ago: “I recognize that this two year project, which overtly maps rural communities, trade connections and … more →

Tags: colonialism/imperialism, Human Terrain Teams, htt, hts, Tanzania, NGOs, Human Terrain, US Army, Belize

Shadow Anthropology — 1 comment

Maximilian Forte wrote 1 year ago: “The challenge for anthropologists is to discover without killing.” “With notebooks and pens w … more →

Tags: colonialism/imperialism, Afghanistan War, Anti-imperialism, hts, htt, Human Terrain, human terrain team, Rick Mitchell, Satire

U.S. Army Female Engagement Teams Expand: King Xerxes’ Queen Esther Cited — 4 comments

John Stanton wrote 1 year ago: [In connection with this article, please see the associated file uploads: COMISAF ppt or COMISAF pdf … more →

Tags: colonialism/imperialism, Montgomery McFate, Human Terrain Teams, Afghanistan, htt, hts, NATO, Christopher A. King, ISAF

Recommended ISAF Guidance for Female Engagement Teams — 4 comments

Maximilian Forte wrote 1 year ago: [The following consists of the speaking notes for a presentation delivered by Major Maria Vedder of … more →

Tags: colonialism/imperialism, Montgomery McFate, Human Terrain Teams, Afghanistan, htt, hts, NATO, Christopher A. King, ISAF

2010 In Review — 8 comments

Maximilian Forte wrote 1 year ago: 2010 has been a great year for Zero Anthropology, with so much to celebrate that it’s difficul … more →

Tags: General, htt, hts, anthropology and counterinsurgency, Al Jazeera, anthropology and militarization, Wikileaks, Anthropologists for Justice and Peace, ajp

Afghanistan: The Imperial Occupation's Own Dancing Boys — 8 comments

Maximilian Forte wrote 1 year ago: A few months back, Jamil Hanifi and I coauthored a widely circulated critique of a slanderous piece … more →

Tags: colonialism/imperialism, Afghanistan, M. Jamil Hanifi, AnnaMaria Cardinalli, dancing boys, bacha bazi, Mohammad Hanif Atmar, DynCorp

So You Want to Join the Human Terrain System: Welcome, Anthropologist — 11 comments

Maximilian Forte wrote 1 year ago: An excellent little video that neatly summarizes, in the appropriately burlesque fashion, the situat … more →

Tags: colonialism/imperialism, htt, hts, Human Terrain, Anthropology, Steve Fondacaro

Hundreds of Army Social Scientists Unqualified, Former Boss Says

defensebaseactcomp wrote 1 year ago: by Spencer Ackerman at Wired’s Danger Room Nearly five years after the Army began a controvers … more →

Tags: Pentagon, Civilian contractors, - Afghanistan (2), Iraq, hts, Danger Room, Steve Fondacaro, SOCIAL SCIENTIST, BAE

At AJP: Expanding the Human Terrain System and Militarizing Anthropology in Canada — 4 comments

Maximilian Forte wrote 1 year ago: For those who are interested, this is just a brief note of two relevant items posted on the website … more →

Tags: colonialism/imperialism, american anthropological association, hts, Anthropology, Anthropologists for Justice and Peace, ajp, university of calgary, Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute, Mary Pavelka

U.S. Army Starving its Civil Affairs Functions: Prefers New Age HTS, PRT’s — 4 comments

John Stanton wrote 1 year ago: “If the expansion of the Human Terrain System gains traction at TRADOC it could kill any efforts to … more →

Tags: colonialism/imperialism, Human Terrain Teams, htt, hts, tradoc, US Army, PRT, Provincial Reconstruction Team, Civil Affairs

The Leavenworth Diary: Double Agent Anthropologist Inside the Human Terrain System — 1 comment

Maximilian Forte wrote 1 year ago: [Max Forte: The following article by John Allison, an anthropologist and former employee of the U.S. … more →

Tags: colonialism/imperialism, iraq, Human Terrain Teams, Afghanistan, ethics, htt, hts, BAE Systems, Militarization

Updates to U.S. Army Human Terrain System News — 7 comments

John Stanton wrote 1 year ago: I have some urgent updates to my last article, “U.S. Army Human Terrain System News: Hamilton … more →

Tags: colonialism/imperialism, htt, hts, Anthropology, John Stanton, tradoc, anthropology and counterinsurgency, Christopher A. King, Rick Mitchell

The Human Terrain System: Global Counterinsurgency, Global Espionage, Global Occupation — 12 comments

Maximilian Forte wrote 1 year ago: Max Forte: The article that follows was written by John Allison, a former member of the U.S. Army … more →

Tags: colonialism/imperialism, Wikileaks, counterinsurgency, Afghanistan, htt, hts, intelligence, Militarization, Occupation

U.S. Army Human Terrain System News: Hamilton Deserves Credit, CG TRADOC in Trouble, Training Woes — 13 comments

John Stanton wrote 1 year ago: Updated version: “Please warn your sources in HTS that TRADOC G2 senior management is on to them. I … more →

Tags: colonialism/imperialism, htt, hts, John Stanton, tradoc, Christopher A. King, Rick Mitchell, General Martin Dempsey, Colonel Maxie McFarland


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