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...number that is increasing rapidly. On the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan, their job is to gather information and provide commanders with a greater understanding of the local population, reducing the need for lethal force by helping the Army determine the needs of the community, according to Steve Fondacaro, the project manager at HTS. Secretary of State Robert Gates has publicly praised the project, and an Army colonel told Congress that one Human Terrain team reduced violent clashes encountered by his brigade in Afghanistan 60% to 70%. As President Obama revamps his Afghanistan strategy, getting ready to send...
...class of about 50 people, there were only about 13 social scientists, five with Ph.D.s - many of the others came from a military background. Because of the AAA, "there are a lot of highly motivated, ethical, critical anthropologists who are being discouraged from helping the program." HTS project manager Fondacaro admits that finding recruits with regional expertise is "very rare," but he argues that HTS is creating a population of social scientists with firsthand experience in Iraq and Afghanistan where none existed before...
...course, this hasn't stopped the military from asking for their help. "What's been missing is the insight and the experiences that social scientists bring to these kinds of conflicts," Fondacaro says. The traditional Army, he says, is good at treating "the symptoms of insurgency" - fighting armed violent groups or reducing the number of IEDs, for instance - but "what HTS is focused on is the disease. There's a reason why the population tolerates and sometimes actively supports groups that advocate violence." That, says Fondacaro, is what HTS is trying to diagnose and ultimately cure...
...message resounds with blue-collar workers, fearful of what a recession could do to their already struggling bottom lines. Obama "is not saying the right things," Robin Fondacaro, 59, an equipment operator from Bristol, said before a Clinton rally in Fairless Hills Sunday. "She's telling us what we want to hear. Now whether it's true or not, time will tell...
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