TY  - BOOK
AU  - McFate,Montgomery
TI  - Social science goes to war: the human terrain system in Iraq and Afghanistan 
SN  - 9780190492137 (ebook) :
AV  - UB250 
U1  - 355.3432 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Military intelligence
KW  - United States
KW  - Afghan War, 2001-
KW  - Iraq War, 2003-2011
KW  - War and society
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - The Human Terrain System (HTS) was catapulted into existence in 2006 by the US military's urgent need for knowledge of the human dimension of the battlespace in Iraq and Afghanistan. Its centrepiece was embedded groups of mixed military and civilian personnel, known as Human Terrain Teams (HTTs), whose mission was to conduct social science research and analysis and to advise military commanders about the local population. Bringing social science - and actual social scientists - to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan was bold and challenging. Despite the controversy over HTS among scholars, there is little good, reliable source material written by those with experience of HTS or about the actual work carried out by teams in theatre. This volume goes beyond the anecdotes, snippets and blogs to provide a comprehensive, objective and detailed view of HTS
UR  - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190216726.001.0001
ER  -