US Military's Human Terrain System (now terminated)

Previously posted in Developing Cultural Intelligence for Leadership G+ community

"The Human Terrain System (HTS) is a United States Army, Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) support program employing personnel from the social science disciplines – such as anthropology, sociology, political science, regional studies and linguistics – to provide military commanders and staff with an understanding of the local population (i.e. the "human terrain") in the regions in which they are deployed."
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"The public debate surrounding HTS received widespread coverage in the media, and was the topic of numerous articles in academic journals.[4] The US Army quietly terminated the program in September 2014."
(from Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Terrain_System)
Resources
(1) Film: Human Terrain: War Becomes Academic
Short Synopsis:
Seeking to understand 'why they hate us', the US military adopts a new strategy of cultural awareness to win over the hearts and minds of the Iraqi and Afghan people. Controversy erupts when academics embed with combat troops and the war comes home to the university.
Official site: http://humanterrainmovie.com/
Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Terrain:_War_Becomes_Academic
Trailer: https://youtu.be/2ZOYjok4BPs
Clip: https://youtu.be/pTg6g9mR2FQ
http://www.sidewaysfilm.com/human-terrain/
(2) Human Terrain System on National Geographic: https://youtu.be/oBkHWb6Iurw
(3) Embedded Conflicts (article, Inside Higher Ed, 7 July 2015 about the closing down of HTS): https://goo.gl/8ybzy5