Training humans for the human domain / Steve Tatham with Keir Giles.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Tatham, Steve, author.

Giles, Keir, author.

Contributor:

Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute, publisher.

Army War College (U.S.). Press, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cultural competence.

Cultural awareness.

War and society.

Human security.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 44 pages)

Place of Publication:

Carlisle Barracks, PA : Strategic Studies Institute and U.S. Army War College Press, 2015.

System Details:

text file PDF

Summary:

"Experience from Afghanistan and Iraq has demonstrated the vital nature of understanding human terrain, with conclusions relevant far beyond counterinsurgency operations in the Islamic world. Any situation where adversary actions are described as 'irrational' demonstrates a fundamental failure in understanding the human dimension of the conflict. It follows that where states and their leaders act in a manner which in the U.S. is perceived as irrational, this too betrays a lack of human knowledge. This monograph offers principles for operating in the human domain which can be extended to consideration of other actors which are adversarial to the United States, and whose decisionmaking calculus sits in a different framework to our own -- including such major states as Russia and China. This monograph argues that the human dimension has become more, not less, important in recent conflicts and that for all the rise in technology future conflicts will be as much defined by the participants' understanding of culture, behavior, and language as by mastery of technology"--Publisher's web site.

Contents:

Introduction. A starting point for cultural awareness

The "ologies". Theology

Anthropology

Psychology/sociology

Linguistics

Case study : getting it wrong. Language learning initiatives : United States and UK compared

Conclusions and policy recommendations. Specific additional policy recommendations.

Notes:

"November 2015."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 37-44).

Online resource; title from PDF title page (SSI, viewed November 2, 2015).

Other Format:

Print version: Tatham, Steve. Training humans for the human domain

OCLC:

927345789