Human Terrain Teams

This thesis extracts organizational lessons from the U.S. Army's Human Terrain Teams. In the past, the Human Terrain Teams have been the topic of various debates, but none discussed their performance. Studying what influences how Human Terrain Teams perform is important to the National Security System to improve its use of socio-cultural knowledge during conflicts. A contextual narrative of team members formally involved with Human Terrain Teams and information from journalistic articles tells the story of what organizational characteristics affected the performance of the U.S. Army's Human Terrain Teams.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts

Level thesis:degree_level

masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Political Science

Department dc:contributor.department

Political Science

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Tech

Year dc:date.issued

2012

Author dc:creator

• Page, Julia Alease

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Brians, Craig Leonard

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Fenio, Kenly
• Zanotti, Laura

• Human Terrain Teams
• Crossfunctional Teams
• Human Terrain System
• U.S. Army

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Dc Identifier Other

etd-03052012-213727

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/31420