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Author Tatham, Steve, author.

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

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

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 Axe Federal Documents Online  D 101.146:T 68/7    ---  Available
Description 1 online resource (xii, 44 pages)
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
text file PDF rda
Note "November 2015."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 37-44).
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.
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.
Note Online resource; title from PDF title page (SSI, viewed November 2, 2015).
Subject Cultural competence.
Cultural awareness.
War and society.
Human security.
Cultural awareness. (OCoLC)fst00885001
Cultural competence. (OCoLC)fst01748449
Human security. (OCoLC)fst01749591
War and society. (OCoLC)fst01170447
Added Author Giles, Keir, author.
Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute, publisher.
Army War College (U.S.). Press, publisher.
Other Form: Print version: Tatham, Steve. Training humans for the human domain 1584877049 (OCoLC)945381880
ISBN 1584877049
9781584877042
Standard No. NLGGC 397877552
Gpo Item No. 0307-A-31 (online)
Sudoc No. D 101.146:T 68/7

 
    
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