Occupation

Abstract

This chapter situates the main problems surrounding the production and use of sociocultural information by the Human Terrain System (HTS) in the context of military occupation. On occasion, HTS personnel produced information that could have prompted much needed policy reform. The recommendations and insights were ignored especially where they collided with existing strategy. The need to keep in place the elements of received knowledge that sustained occupation is a more important explanation of the limited impact of the Human Terrain System than organizational and individual incompetence.