Command Climate: The State of U.S. Civil-Military Relations
A Full Day Conference on Civil-Military Relations in Policy, Politics and Public
Conference Agenda:
9:00 am: Coffee and Registration
9:30 am: Welcome and Overview
- Dr. Kathleen Hicks, senior vice president, Henry A. Kissinger Chair, and director of the International Security Program, CSIS
- Dr. Janine Davidson, President, Metropolitan State University of Denver; former Undersecretary of the Navy
- Admiral William Gortney, USN (ret.), former Commander, U.S. Northern Command
- Dr. Kori Schake, Research Fellow, Stanford University
- MG Richard Clarke, Vice Director for Strategic Plans and Policy, Joint Staff, J-5
- Moderator: Alice Friend, Senior Fellow, International Security Program, CSIS
12:45 pm: Panel II – The Military and Politics
- Dr. Eliot Cohen, Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
- Dr. Peter Feaver, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, Duke University
- Colonel Heidi Urben, USA
- Maj Gen Charles J. Dunlap, USAF (ret.), Executive Director, Center on Law, Ethics and National Security, Duke Law School
- Moderator: Greg Jaffe, Washington Post
- Rosa Brooks, Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Graduate Programs, Georgetown University Law Center; Contributing Editor, Foreign Policy
- Dr. Jason Dempsey, Adjunct Senior Fellow, Military, Veterans and Society Program, Center for a New American Security
- Major Jim Golby, USA, Executive Office of the Vice President
- Major General James Johnson, USAF, Director, Air Force Sexual Assault Prevention and Response
- Moderator: Kim Dozier, The Daily Beast and CNN
4:00 pm: Keynote: The Military Profession
- Speaker: Admiral Michael Mullen, USN (ret.), former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
- Moderator: Helene Cooper, The New York Times
Introducing Command Climate
On May 23rd, CSIS's International Security Program is hosting an all-day conference on U.S. civil-military relations. To set the stage, Senior Fellow Alice Friend interviewed a few of the country's top scholars and practitioners.
Click here to view a full list of the interviews
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