The Human Terrain System (HTS) was an important subject at Ethnography.com when the military began funding it in 2006-2007 or so. The program was established to bring anthropological understandings of culture into the US military in Afghanistan and Iraq.
There was a great deal of controversy in the AAA, and those of us at Ethnography.com at the time responded about the strengths and weaknesses of the program, as well as whether AAA’s approach.
HTS though is now over and done with, though. Roberto Gonzalez is a long-time critic of the program, and details its rise and fall here. (There is an excellent bibliography at the end of his article for any ambitious students interested in the rise and fall of the program!
Tony Waters is czar and editor of Ethnography.com. He came to us from the Sociology department at California State University at Chico where he has been a professor since 1996. In 2016 though he suddenly found himself with a new gig at Payap University in northern Thailand where he is on the faculty of the Peace Studies Department. He has also been a guest professor in Germany, and Tanzania. In the past, his main interests have been international development and refugees in Thailand, Tanzania, and California. This reflects a former career in the Peace Corps (Thailand), and refugee camps (Thailand and Tanzania). His books include: Crime and Immigrant Youth (1999), Bureaucratizing the Good Samaritan (2001), The Persistence of Subsistence Agriculture: Life Beneath of the Marketplace (2007), When Killing is a Crime (2007), and Schooling, Bureaucracy, and Childhood: Bureaucratizing the Child (2012). His hobby is trying to learn strange languages–and the mistakes that that implies. Tony is a prolific academic, you can read more of his work at academia.edu.or purchase one (or more!) of his books from Amazon.com.