In The Media
In 2006, George Packer, author of The Assassin's Gate: America in Iraq and New Yorker magazine staff writer, wrote an article about the increasing use of social science in US military operations and the early trials of the HTS program. He reflected: "At a moment when the Bush Administration has run out of ideas and lost control, it could turn away from its “war on terror” and follow a different path—one that is right under its nose."
In a (mainly critical) book about HTS entitled David Petraeus's Favourite Mushroom: Inside the US Army's Human Terrain System (2009), John Stanton (an independent journalist) claimed that HTS had been successful in advising a US military unit in Iraq on proper mealtime etiquette, i.e., not only how to properly eat, but also the gestures during the meal, and especially how to observe the Ramadan feast.
Read more about this topic: Human Terrain System, Public Debate: Praise, Criticism and Controversy, Praise and Support
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“The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves the rest in darkness. It recognises neither pity nor pitilessness.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)