In 2005, anthropologist Mongtomery McFate co-authored a pair of articles in the journal *Military Review *that helped set the stage for the Human Terrain System, the Army's effort to embed social ...

As social scientists continue to debate their colleagues’ participation in the military’s Human Terrain System, a new voice has entered the fray. George R. Lucas Jr., a military ethicist who is a ...

The Human Terrain System—a $40-million U.S. Army program in which social scientists are embedded within military units in Afghanistan and Iraq—has been nearly paralyzed by organizational problems, ...

Not in our name. That could be the battle cry of American anthropologists resisting the recent use of their discipline in Iraq and Afghanistan. In June, 12 Human Terrain Teams (HTT) – each made up of ...

How can American forces in Afghanistan and Iraq not only battle insurgents and preserve troop morale but also better acquaint themselves with Middle East culture? How can the American soldier become a ...

As the White House turns its focus to the war in Afghanistan, President Obama has stressed the need to win over "the hearts and minds" of the Afghan people. That's the goal of teams of anthropologists ...

A pilot program to embed anthropologists on the front lines in Iraq and Afghanistan has sparked major controversy in the anthropological community. The program, known as the Human Terrain System (HTS) ...

Human Terrain exposes the effort to enlist social scientists in a struggle for the hearts and minds of America's enemies. Facing long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. military adopts a ...