Human Terrain Teams; An Organizational Innovation for Sociocultural Knowledge in Irregular Warfare
Washington DC: The Institute of World Politics Press, 2013. Presumed First Edition, First printing (but note printing date of 2015 on last page). Trade paperback. xv, [1], 291, [1] pages. Appendixes. Selected Bibliography. Index. Rear cover creased. Some sticker residue on back cover. Foreword by Lieutenant General Michael T. Flynn. Human Terrain Teams (HTTs) are five- to nine-person teams deployed by the Human Terrain System (HTS) to support field commanders by filling their cultural knowledge gap in the current operating environment and providing cultural interpretations of events occurring within their area of operations. The team is composed of individuals with social science and operational backgrounds that are deployed with tactical and operational military units to assist in bringing knowledge about the local population into a coherent analytic framework and build relationships with the local power-brokers in order to provide advice and opportunities to Commanders and staffs in the field. Human Terrain comprises the entire spectrum of society and culture. This should be the focus of the HTA’s interpretation. More