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Podcast Episode
A Challenging Conversation: The USAWC Civil-Military Relations Center
Carrie Lee and Ron Granieri
May 16, 2023
Research Article
A More Perfect Union: Black Soldiers and the Promise of America
Charles Allen and John Nagl
Spring 2023
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Podcast Episode
A Time of Change: The US Army in the 1990s
David Fitzgerald and Carrie Lee
Apr 23, 2024
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Commentary
Rethinking Civil-Military Relations for Modern Strategy
Carrie A. Lee and Max Margulies
Aug 14, 2023
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SSI Monograph
Framing the Future of the US Military Profession
Richard Lacquement and Tom Galvin
January 2022
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New at CMRC
ANNUAL CONFERENCE THEME ANNOUNCED!
Our annual conference creates a forum where scholars have an opportunity to present their latest academic work and military officers are able to develop policy-relevant solutions to the most pressing civil-military challenges today.
This year, our conference will highlight civil-military dynamics around the globe, and their impact on the security environment. With active conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East, and an increasingly aggressive China, understanding how civil-military dynamics may impact the decision-making of American allies and adversaries is of critical importance to the success of U.S. foreign policy. Yet, strategic discussions today too often look past how civil-military relations can inform and impact security policy.
Plenary sessions will explicitly tackle civil-military relations in Ukraine, Russia, NATO, Israel, China, Taiwan, the United States, and other key actors in the contemporary security environment.
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CMRC is pleased to host LtCol Cameron McCoy PhD for a talk on his book, Contested Valor: African American Marines in the Age of Power, Protest, and Tokenism. Join us on Thursday, 9/12 at 3PM for our kickoff to the fall workshop series!
Faculty Spotlight
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Dr. Celestino Perez
Chair of Executive and Strategic Leadership
Dr. Celestino Perez serves as the Chair of Executive and Strategic Leadership at the U.S. Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, PA. He also directs the Carlisle Scholars Program, for which he designs and teaches a seminar of select national-security professionals in political science, strategy, war, and military ethics. Finally, he serves as an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. His research interests include political judgment, strategy, military ethics, and the relationship between the American military and democracy. He is especially interested in “bridging the gap” between the illuminating work that political scientists do and the real-world challenges that political and military actors confront.
Perez hold a BS in American Politics from West Point (1992) and an MA (2002) and PhD (2008) in political science (political theory) from Indiana University at Bloomington. He is a Distinguished Graduate of the U.S. Army War College with a Master in Strategic Studies. His scholarly work appears in Perspectives on Politics, Peace Review, Armed Forces & Society, and the Journal of Military Ethics. His public and professional essays have appeared in Joint Forces Quarterly, Military Review, War on the Rocks, and Strategy Bridge. He has also published an edited volume entitled Addressing the Fog of Cog: Perspectives on the Center of Gravity in U.S. Military Doctrine with Combat Studies Institute Press (2012).
On October 31st, 2021, Dr. Perez retired as a colonel after 30 years of service in the U.S. Army.
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