Federal Event: Human Terrain System, 10/20

This announcement comes courtesy of Jenn Gardella!

The Human Terrain System Being hosted by the Intelligence Community Club on Tuesday, October 20th at 4:30 pm in 2203 Art-Sociology Building

Dr. David Foster,University of Maryland alum and current social scientist on a Human Terrain Team (HTT) in Baghdad, will be speaking about his experience in Iraq. The Human Terrain System is a controversial new project that embeds social scientists with the US military in Iraq and Afghanistan in order to help them better understand and navigate the human terrain in their area of operations. Human terrain consists of the intersection of sectarian, tribal, economic, political, historic and cultural dynamics within a society and is increasingly more important to success in Iraq and Afghanistan than is the traditional geographic terrain.

Dr. Foster's talk will cover the history and purpose of the Human Terrain System project, the importance of "cultural intelligence", the type of work that HTTs do and their place in the evolving strategy of the US military."