Social science goes to war : the human terrain system in Iraq and Afghanistan / editors Montgomery McFate, Janice H. Laurence.

Abstract: "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 centerpiece was embedded groups of miexed 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."

Contents: Introduction: Unveiling the Human Terrain System / Montgomery McFate and Janice H. Laurence -- Mind the gap: bridging the military/academic divide / Montgomery Fate -- An anthropologist at war in Afghanistan / Ted Callahan -- What do you bring to the fight? A year in Iraq as an embedded social scientist / Katherine Blue Carroll -- Playing spades in Al Anbar: a female social scientist among marines and special forces / Jennifer A. Clark -- The four pillars of integration: how to make social science work in a war zone / Kathleen Reedy -- Investigating in uncertainty: applying social science to military operations / James Dorough-Lewis Jr. -- Allied civilian enablers and the Helmand surge / Leslie Adrienne Payne -- Assessing the Human Terrain teams: no white hats or black hats, please / Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban and George R. Lucas Jr. -- Tangi Valley: the limitations of applied anthropology in Afghanistan / Brian G. Brereton -- The Human Terrain System: some lessons learned and the way forward / Janice H. Laurence.

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