This 122 page handbook, dated Sep 2008, presents the US military's controversial anthropology based counterinsurgency techniques.

Formally titled "Human Terrain Team Handbook" the document comes out of the US Army's $190 Million "Human Terrain System" program.

Recent deaths (in May and June 2008) and maiming of Human Terrain Team members have led to questions in the US media regarding the training of Human Terrain Teams (HTT).

According to the handbook, HTTs are 5-9 person intelligence teams made up of serving military, contractors and "academicians". The teams are designed to assist a commander's irregular warfare operations by using anthropological and intelligence techniques to exploit cultural, political and family relationships in a region.

The material is unclassified, but has not been publicly released though official channels.


US military: Human Terrain Team Handbook, Sep 2008
http://wikileaks.org/wiki/US_military:_Human_Terrain_Team_Handbook%2C_Sep_2008