U.S. Congress and the Human Terrain System
To supplement the report by John Stanton, “US Congress Requests Assessment of Army‘s Human Terrain System: Independent Assessment Due from SECDEF by March 2010,” one should note the following...
View ArticleJohn Stanton: US Congress Rewards Failure, Puts Personnel in Harm’s Way
This is John Stanton’s 20th article on the Human Terrain System, with his previous ones available here at: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, and 19. John sent this article...
View ArticleBibliography and Archive: The Military, Intelligence Agencies, and the...
Over 470 reports have been published online concerning the relationships between anthropology, other parts of academia, and the military and intelligence agencies since 2001. The items covered here...
View ArticleOn the lighter side of darkness: “I LUV A MAN IN A UNIFORM!” is back
Many thanks to a student who, while reading “Do Pentagon Studs Make You Want to Bite Your Fist?” – “Pentagon Diva,” a pseudonymous Washington government employee who admires “studly guys in uniform...
View ArticleUS Army Generals Not Informed HTS was Spy/Intel Program: John Stanton
US Army Generals Not Informed HTS was Spy/Intel Program; Casualty Rate Excessive by John Stanton 29 April 2010 “Let me tell you what HTT is not. The Team is not an intelligence gathering too which is...
View ArticleGun Running, Drugs, and Flamenco: U.S. Army Human Terrain System Has it All
Readers Note: Due to the gravity of the allegations/information below, I immediately submitted the information provided by sources to the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The FBI was...
View ArticleHTS’ MAP HT Failure: People Not Being Paid, MAP HT Cost Overrruns
“It would seem that the U.S. Army TRADOC Command has entered a time warp. They have dusted off the files on CORDS and the old FAO program. The new COIN manual and doctrine are the Holy Grail! The...
View ArticleGeneral Petraeus’ Magic Bag: Human Terrain System and Covert Ops
So General David Petraeus is back on the COIN campaign trail arguing that pacifying the Human Terrain (HT) is his number one priority. Petraeus’ model program for converting an indigenous human terrain...
View ArticleCounterinsurgency: It’s Bloody Horrible
COUNTER-COUNTERINSURGENCY: You’ve heard the criticisms. You’ve read the book. Now see the movie. These are some of my favourite lines: counterinsurgency: it’s like a wild horse, only you bet on it;...
View ArticleSources Sought to Run Human Terrain System: Insiders Glevum and McNeil...
“The need now is to get a decent contracting company in there that is actually focused on the job and they just might prove some worth as a force multiplier.” On 22 September 2010 The U.S. Army...
View ArticleUS Army Can’t Fix its Human Terrain System: How can it win multiple wars?
This nonsense needs to end. Over 40 articles on HTS have been written over a two-plus year time frame and there is no end in sight–though there should be. These articles are based on 90 sources with...
View ArticleU.S. Army Human Terrain System News: Hamilton Deserves Credit, CG TRADOC in...
Updated version: “Please warn your sources in HTS that TRADOC G2 senior management is on to them. I was told this in a conversation I had with the TRADOC G2 today. It’s sad that finding out your...
View ArticleUpdates to U.S. Army Human Terrain System News
I have some urgent updates to my last article, “U.S. Army Human Terrain System News: Hamilton Deserves Credit, CG TRADOC in Trouble, Training Woes“: “Please warn your sources in HTS that TRADOC G2...
View ArticleU.S. Army Starving its Civil Affairs Functions: Prefers New Age HTS, PRT’s
“If the expansion of the Human Terrain System gains traction at TRADOC it could kill any efforts to develop a cultural expertise construct by the Civil Affairs community, specifically the Civil...
View ArticleDocuments: Investigations into the U.S. Army’s Human Terrain System
In line with the publication of this report in USA Today, “Army plows ahead with troubled war-zone program” by Tom Vanden Brook, February 18, 2013, we are offering readers copies of many of the...
View ArticleJohn’s Final Epistle to The Anthropologists, Part I: The Training and...
Peeping through a Keyhole, Down upon My Knees We are virtually here to discuss with you something that I would call InTRADOCtrination: Intelligent Design for Retraining the Masses The Mission?: We...
View ArticleJohn’s Final Epistle to The Anthropologists, Part II: The Training and...
The New Intelligent Design of Human Society and Anthropology Nobody in the USA or in the UN has proposed a bill – that I am aware of – for The People to vote on the fundamental topics of our era. We...
View ArticleInstrumental Partners: An Imperial Science of Agency
For an empire whose imperialism is still denied by many, a striking number of terms and concepts have been generated by US leaders that nonetheless are premised on the root idea of “force” in achieving...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....