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Human Terrain. Visualizing the world’s Population, in 3D. Kinshasa is now bigger than Paris. . Guangzhou, Hong Kong, and Shenzhen are . forming an epic, 40 million-person super city. Over the past 30 years, the scale of population change is hard to grasp. How do you even visualize 10 million people? Loading...
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Apr 16, 2010 · Human Terrain: Directed by James Der Derian, David Udris, Michael Udris. 'Human Terrain' is two stories in one. The first exposes the U.S. effort to enlist the best and the brightest of American universities in a struggle for the hearts and minds of its enemies.
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- Documentary
- James Der Derian, David Udris, Michael Udris
- 2010-04-16
Currently you are able to watch "Human Terrain" streaming on OVID or for free with ads on The Roku Channel, Tubi TV. Synopsis Seeking to understand 'why they hate us', the US military adopts a new strategy of cultural awareness to win over the hearts and minds of the Iraqi and Afghan people.
- James Der Derian, David Udris, Michael Udris
- 57 min
- 4
Human Terrain the Movie – Human Terrain the movie began as an investigation into a controversial US military program to embed social scientists in Iraq and Afghanistan that ends on a tragic note when an advisor to the film joins a Human Terrain Team and is killed by a roadside bomb.
The Human Terrain crew films urban counterinsurgency training at Hogan’s Alley, Marine Corps Base in Quantico, Virginia. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates proposes an expansion of counterinsurgency operations in Afghanistan with a troop surge of over 20,000 U.S. forces.
Human Terrain was ‘weaponizing’ culture as well as implicating the treasured independence of social science scholarship. Not so, said the Pentagon; Human Terrain was lowering casualty rates on both sides of the conflict and increasing trust and stability in the tribal communities.
Gaining rare access to war-games in the Mojave Desert and training exercises at Quantico and Fort Leavenworth, 'Human Terrain' takes the viewer into the heart of the war machine and the shadowy...
