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Human Terrain and Counterinsurgency

By Sean Gallagher | Published: September 17, 2009
Today, I had an opportunity to talk with Col. Daniel S. Roper, the director of the U.S. Army and Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Center at Ft. Leavenworth, as part of the series of Blogger Round Tables that DOD Public Affairs hosts. I asked him about the role of “human terrain” — and the Human Terrain System, [...]
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Is HTS headed for end-of-lifecycle?

By Sean Gallagher | Published: March 11, 2009
I’ve filed my story on the Human Terrain System–I’ll link to it when it’s published. But I filed just as some interesting related news popped up. The Wired Danger Room blog reported on a Military Review article by Marine Corps Major Ben Connable, former lead on the Marine Corps’ Cultural Intelligence Program, which [...]
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Human Terrain System’s transitional pains

By Sean Gallagher | Published: March 5, 2009
I’ve conducted a number of interview on the Army’s HTS this week, for a story I’m writing for C4ISR Journal. While that article will focus on the technical aspects of the program, which I’ll review briefly here, the program gets most of its attention from the controversy surrounding the idea of sending social scientists to [...]
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Human Terrain System's transitional pains

By Sean Gallagher | Published: March 5, 2009
I’ve conducted a number of interview on the Army’s HTS this week, for a story I’m writing for C4ISR Journal. While that article will focus on the technical aspects of the program, which I’ll review briefly here, the program gets most of its attention from the controversy surrounding the idea of sending social scientists to [...]
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Human Terrain System – A reporter’s notebook

By Sean Gallagher | Published: February 26, 2009
[updated] I’m currently doing some inquiries for an article I’m preparing on the Human Terrain System — a program that’s had more than its share of controversy surrounding it, and as far as I can tell, a lot of political FUD-spreading. The name of the program is somewhat misleading to those who don’t know about it, because [...]
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Human Terrain System – A reporter's notebook

By Sean Gallagher | Published: February 26, 2009
[updated] I’m currently doing some inquiries for an article I’m preparing on the Human Terrain System — a program that’s had more than its share of controversy surrounding it, and as far as I can tell, a lot of political FUD-spreading. The name of the program is somewhat misleading to those who don’t know about it, because [...]
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