United States. Army. Human Terrain System

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Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
United States. Army. Human Terrain System
Other forms of name
United States. Army Training and Doctrine Command. Human Terrain System
HTS (Human Terrain System)
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 132934229
Wikidata: Q5937607
Library of congress: no2010053353
Sources of Information
  • Ethics and moral experience in combat : conversations with anthropologists in the Human Terrain System, 2009:p. 3 (the Human Terrain System is a program in the United States Army that attempts to mitigate the necessity for lethal force by providing commanders with knowledge of the values, beliefs, and structures of communities in Iraq and Afghanistan)
  • Human Terrain System WWW site, Mar. 30, 2010(Human Terrain System; HTS is a new program, run by the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command. The near-term focus of the HTS program is to improve the military's ability to understand the highly complex local socio-cultural environment in the areas where they are deployed; however, in the long-term, HTS hopes to assist the US government in understanding foreign countries and regions prior to an engagement within that region)