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Bridging The Gap: Assuring Military Effectiveness When Military Culture Diverges From Civilian Society
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The project has been briefed to over sixty different audiences, to include sessions with: Dr. David Chu, UnderSecretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness; Rudy DeLeon, UnderSecretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness; The Honorable F. Whitten Peters, Secretary of the Air Force; Tom Longstreth, Deputy UnderSecretary for Personnel and Readiness; VADM Patricia Tracey, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Military Personnel Policy; Dr. James Miller, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Requirements, Plans, and Counterproliferation; Dr. Morton Halperin, Director, Policy Planning, State Department; Dr. Hans Binnendyk, Senior Director for Defense Policy and Arms Control on the National Security Council Staff; Charles Abell, Senate Armed Services Committee Staff; Congressman Ike Skelton (D-MO); Ambassador Richard Armitage; General Alfred Gray, USMC (Ret.); Admiral William Crowe, USN (Ret.); Congressman Steve Buyer (R-IN); General Richard B. Myers, Vice-Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff; Bernard Rostker, Undersecretary of the Army; General Andrew J. Goodpaster, USA (Ret.); LTG. William E. Odom, USA (Ret.); Dr. Dov S. Zakheim; Lt. Gen. Daniel J. Kaufman, Superintendent, U.S. Military Academy; General Eric Shinseki, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army; General James Jones, Commandant, Marine Corps; General Michael Ryan, Chief of Staff, Air Force; and Andrew Hoehn, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy. The study has been extensively briefed to military officers at all levels of professional military education and is already shaping syllabi and civil-military relations teaching in military institutions.

March 11-12, 1999, Naval War College

April 16-18, 1999, Wast Hills House, King's Norton, Birmingham, England
Keynote address presented at conference on "Redefining Society-Military Relations from Vancouver to Vladivostok"

July 19-20, 1999, Summer Workshop on Analysis of Military Operations and Strategy Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

September 2-5, 1999, The American Political Science Association, Atlanta, GA

September 23, 1999, Office of the Secretary of Defense staff

September 23, 1999, Joint Chiefs of Staff action officers

September 30, 1999, National Security Council staff

September 30, 1999, Policy Planning Staff, State Department

September 30, 1999, Senate Armed Services Committee Staff

October 16, 1999, Advisory Board of Duke Magazine

October 22, 1999, Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society

October 27-29, Cantigny Conference, "The Conference on the Military and Civilian Society," Wheaton, IL

November 4, 1999, Testimony by Richard H. Kohn before the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Personnel

November 6, 1999, Private briefing for Congressman Ike Skelton (D-MO), ranking minority member, House Armed Services Committee.

November 11, 1999, Institute for War and Peace, Columbia University

November 13, 1999, International Studies Association- Southern Region, Lexington, KY

November 18, 1999, Ambassador Richard Armitage, advisor to Governor George W. Bush

November 18, 1999, Potomac Institute

November 18, 1999, Outreach Dinner, SAIS, Johns Hopkins University

December 2, 1999, Private briefing to Congressman Steve Buyer (R-IN), Chairman, House Armed Services Military Personnel Subcommittee

December 7, 1999, House Armed Services Committee staff

December 7, 1999, Outreach Dinner, SAIS, Johns Hopkins University

December 14, 1999, Triangle Institute for Security Studies

December 15, 1999, Undersecretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness with Assistant Secretaries and principal staff

December 15, 1999, Board of Directors of the Smith Richardson Foundation

January 11, 2000, General Richard B. Myers, USAF, CINCSPACE (VCJCS-designee)

January 13, 2000 Center for Professional Ethics, United States Naval Academy Faculty

January 13, 2000 Outreach Dinner, SAIS, Johns Hopkins University

January 14, 2000, Duke University Alumni Luncheon

January 14, 20000, Association of the United States Army, Lemnitzer Lecture Series

February 23, 2000, Political-Military Bureau, Department of State, staff

February 23, 2000, National Defense University students and faculty

February 26, 2000, Future's Group Meeting, Marine Corps University, Quantico, VA

March 1, 2000, Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, Miami, FL, Education and Defense Seminar

March 2, 2000, Council on Foreign Relations, Washington, DC

March 8, 2000, Council on Foreign Relations, New York, NY

March 24, 2000, Reserve Officers Association including over 50 Congressional Staff Members

March 24, 2000, Gen. Eric Shinseki, U.S. Army, Chief of Staff

April 11, 2000, The Retired Officer's Association, Board of Directors and Staff

April 12, 2000, "Public Expectations of Homeland Security," Annual Strategy Conference, Army War College

April 13, 2000, Duke University Center for Law, Ethics, and National Security
Conference on the US Military in the New Millennium

April 19, 2000, Naval Academy Foreign Affairs Conference, "The Role of Militaries in the New Millennium"

April 27, 2000, US Naval Institute Conference

April 27, 2000, SAIS, Strategic Studies Program, "The Civil-Military Crisis Debate"

April 28, 2000, William Sutey, Legislative Assistant to Senator Charles Robb

May 2, 2000, "Civil-Military Relations and the Use of Force," John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, Harvard University

May 2, 2000, "The Civil-Military Culture Gap Controversy," Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

May 12, 2000, General James Jones, USMC, Commandant, Marine Corps

May 12, 2000, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Threat Reduction (Strategy)

June 13, 2000, Department of War Studies, King's College, London

June 15, 2000, The Center for Studies in Social Sciences of Defense, Paris, France

June 19, 2000, Richard Saunders and Military Advisors to Vice-President Al Gore

August 23, 2000, Center for Defense Leadership and Management Program, National Defense University

September 1, 2000, Hans Binnendyk, National Security Council

September 1, 2000, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C.

October 11, 2000, Gen. Michael Ryan, USAF, Chief of Staff, Air Force, and Principals of the Air Staff

October 12, 2000, ROTC students and Peace, War, and Defense majors at University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill

October 20, 2000, "The Civil-Military Gap in Comparative Perspective," St. Cyr, France

October 23, 2000, The Center for Studies in Social Sciences of Defense, Paris, France

December 1, 2000, Center for the Defense Leadership and Management Program, National Defense University

January 25, 2201, Civil-Military Consortium, Washington, DC

January 26, 2001, National Security Council staff

May 7, 2001, Keynote Luncheon Address to Annual Leadership Conference, Employee Support for Guard and Reserves, San Diego, CA

May 10, 2001, Plenary Address to "Taking Stock on Civil-Military Relations," conference sponsored by the Centre for European Security Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands

July 16, 2001, UnderSecretary of Defense for Personnel and Readines with Assistant Secretary and principal staff