Defense Contractors from Dante's Circles of Hell: Sequel to Human Terrain System I?
by John Stanton
There is no questioning the validity of the need for a military biased geospatial cultural analysis program that assists US warfighters in their efforts to pacify local populations or improve the speed and accuracy of the kill chain. That effort does not require the use of PhD's from colleges and universities. Further, it seems outlandish to pay $250,000 for an inexperienced (5 months training usually truncated) social scientist to operate in a combat zone.
Why push all that cash to contractors when the talent to divine the cultural landscape exists within the military itself. If after a decade of war in Iraq and Afghanistan (and more on the way in Pakistan, Iran, Mexico-well, Hell, everywhere), the political and military leadership hasn't figured out the human terrain they wish to control, then the questions become: Are the President and SECDEF and their subordinates that incompetent? Are the hundreds of military-university human terrain/behavioral analysis efforts simply jobs programs and a way for the military and intelligence functions to tunnel into academia (just as they have done with the new breed of war journalists in the MSM or places like Wired)?
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