Que Curioso! U.S. Army Cultural Advisers Now Eyeing Mexico

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Que Curioso! U.S. Army Cultural Advisers Now Eyeing Mexico

Wired – Back in 2006, the U.S. Army began a controversial program to send cultural specialists to unfamiliar warzones. Now the Human Terrain System is investigating the idea of sending social scientists to a place that’s neither alien nor a declared battlefield for U.S. troops: Mexico. Earlier this month, two HTS advisers were dispatched to the Colorado headquarters of U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM), which oversees the military’s actions in this hemisphere. It’s a pilot program, to explore whether there are gaps in cultural knowledge “that might warrant sending human terrain experts to Mexico,” Defense News reports. Read Article

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