KU News Release

Army officer to speak at Dole Institute on his experience in Iraq

Maj. Andrew Harvey

LAWRENCE — Maj. Andrew Harvey, a graduate student in political science at the University of Kansas who spent 2006 in Iraq working in political and military intelligence, will present “Observations from Iraq: Implications for the Future” at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 26, at the Simons Media Room in the Dole Institute of Politics. The program is free and open to the public.

“As an intelligence officer in Iraq, Maj. Harvey gained unique insight into the structure and workings of the Iraqi government,” said Jonathan Earle, interim director of the Dole Institute. “We’ll be seeing a presentation that only a select group of insiders have so far been privy to.”

Harvey is working on a dissertation about the European Union’s development of a defense capability. He served as the political-military intelligence officer for the C9 staff section (civil affairs) of Multinational Corps Iraq at Camp Victory Baghdad from January to December 2006. Harvey works in the Department of Joint and Multinational Operations at Fort Leavenworth and is scheduled to retire in February.

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