Command Climate: The State of U.S. Civil-Military Relations

Conference Agenda:

• 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

• 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

• 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.

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Kathleen H. Hicks

Senior Vice President; Henry A. Kissinger Chair; Director, International Security Program