COL Chris Fuhriman

COL Chris Fuhriman is the deputy head of the Department of Geography & Earth Sciences at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York. He teaches Physical Geography (EV203), Geographic Research Methods (EV367), and Military Geography (EV482). He has also taught Geography of Asia (EV372), Geography of Latin America (EV373), and Colloquium in Geography (EV483).

He is an aviation officer with experience in general support battalions, training battalions, and operational assignments in Afghanistan and Korea. He commanded a training company in the Army’s Initial Entry Rotary Wing Course (UH-60A/L), where he served as a Black Hawk instructor pilot.

COL Fuhriman deployed to Afghanistan as a Security Force Assistance advisor to the Afghan Border Police and as the deputy director of the Lwara Border Coordination Center in eastern Paktika Province.

He is a human geographer with research interests in military geography, terrorism and political conflict, GIS battlefield analysis, Israel and the Middle East, and East Asia. His doctoral research focused on the development of a new theoretical approach to understanding the territorial aspirations of terrorist organizations.