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This chapter describes the belief of some members of the Human Terrain System (HTS) that the program will reduce violence. It also provides some examples where HTS did have this short-term effect and discusses an extended proposal from an HTS anthropologist to have the military support nonviolence forms of resistance from Afghan villagers. This proposal was not implemented. It also cites the opinion of a military commander who thought that HTS could provide backup support but that the leading edge of military strategy should continue to be “night raids” carried out against insurgent forces. HTS did not have a systematic impact on violence levels.
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Joseph, P. (2014). Violence. In: “Soft” Counterinsurgency: Human Terrain Teams and US Military Strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan. Palgrave Pivot, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137401878_5
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