While the geography skills of young Americans are unimpressive, however, they may be improving. A similar study carried out in 2002 found only 13 per cent could point to Iraq on a map.

In Afghanistan, the Human Terrain teams feed information to military intelligence centers called Stability Operations Information Centers, according to a 2010 Pentagon intelligence plan.

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1 / 2 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Dr. James Forsythe, a social scientist with an Army Human Terrain Team, interviews an Iraqi civilian role player in the simulated village of Abar Layla, May 28.

If and when U.S. troops invade Iraq, they'll be storming into one of the most geographically diverse regions of the Middle East, a land that evokes images of the Arabian ...

In addition to the map, Agence France-Presse has an update on the status of seven key cities in Iraq as of Friday morning:. Mosul: Iraq's second-biggest city was the first to fall in the swift ...