US Army clipboard corps lose leader

[image error]Wired's Danger Room blog has a short news item reporting that the co-founder and leader of the Human Terrain System, the US Army's teams of battlefield social scientists, is no longer in post and has presumably been fired.

The HTS has been a controversial innovation of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and aims to understand the culture in which the conflict takes place to give the military a strategic advantage. Civilian social scientists have criticised the project as violating the 'do no...