Program Summary
What is opaque to outsiders is often obvious – even if implicit – to locals. Habitus aims to capture and make local knowledge available to military operators, providing them with an insider view to support decision making. This involves developing: 1) new engagement mechanisms; and 2) methodologies for creating predictive, causal models of local systems based on input from locals. The resulting capability would be generalizable across regions and populations, adaptive as societies change over time, and self-sustaining for maintainability and persistence.