Cultured hosts, host cultures a survey of communication attitudes among service members with mission background

Abstract

The aim of the study paper is to analyze the survey data of missions from the aspects of communication, with special emphasis on the PRT in Afghanistan. The paper concludes that half of the survey's respondents had difficulties with understanding the local native culture. The internet had become an essential deivce of interpesonal and mass communication by 2010 at the operation  level, but the most efficient and economical way of winning over the locals amy be the radio in Afghanistan. The study paper recommends the use of radio as a device of in-camp communitcation within camp as well.