This is the second event in a series on US civil-military relations, hosted by the Clements Center for National Security at the University of Texas at Austin, and co-sponsored by The Trebuchet, the Scowcroft Lecture Series at USAFA, the America in the World Consortium, and VIA Unlimited. Our first event was held on October 27th.

This series is inspired by the Alliance Linking Leaders in Education and the Services (ALLIES), a civil-military program I created with my students at the Institute for Global Leadership, with subsequent chapters at West Point, Annapolis, USAFA, Wellesley College, and Boston University. In this fraught time, we remain alarmed at developments that threaten the apolitical professionalism of the military, and the ethos we sought to develop and spread through ALLIES - respect for the Constitution and the demonstration of strong ethical leadership, perhaps best exemplified in the ALLIES National Security and Civil Liberties program we convened with the Law Library of Congress.