Program on National Security Conference
“Mind the Gap”: Post-Iraq Civil-Military Relations in America

October 15, 2007
Reserve Officers Association, Washington, DC

Professional Ethics and Dissent

What is the line on offering advice? How much can/should the military speak out? What are the ethical dimensions of serving both branches of government? What is the obligation that senior officers owe to their seniors, and to their juniors? How much should officers be involved in the media?

• Paper: Col. (Ret.) Don Snider, Visiting Professor, Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College (on leave from the U.S. Military Academy)
• Commentators:
  • Lt. Gen. Gregory Newbold, USMC (ret.)
  • Peter Hegseth, Vets for Freedom
• Moderator: Lt. General Dennis McCarthy, USMC (Ret.), Executive Director, ROA

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