December 5, 2007
Former Human Terrain System Participant Describes Program in Disarray
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, according to a graduate student who was fired from the program in August after four months of training.
Recruitment shortfalls have left all of the human-terrain teams in Iraq seriously understaffed, says Zenia Helbig, a doctoral student in religious studies at the University of
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