ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the Human Terrain System (HTS) at the same time that he was seeking to change his career from design anthropology to working within the defense community. Ironically, it was the outcry from critics that brought the program to my attention. When he heard of the HTS, he was already having conversations with anthropologists in the military and intelligence communities about opportunities for changing my career path. He left the HTS; he chose to continue working with the Department of Defense (DoD). The military and intelligence communities have a different way of ensuring ethnical compliance: federal law and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. The reason most people in the intelligence community are quiet about their work is not because they have some high-level secrets in their heads, it is because they have signed forms saying that they can be prosecuted for talking about it.
