The 2025 CGSC Ethics Symposium and CAC Instructor Training is scheduled for April 1-2, 2025.
Click the 2025 link at right for more information.
Beginning in 2009, the Command and General Staff College Foundation has partnered each year with the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College to host an annual ethics symposium at Fort Leavenworth. These annual symposia provide an opportunity for academics and practitioners to come together to discuss ethics as they relate to the profession of arms, the practice of state controlled violence, and national security.
From 2009 to 2016, the annual ethics symposium was conducted as elective credit for CGSOC students, but from 2017-2019 the symposium was shortened and became required attendance by all CGSOC students. The 2013 symposium was not conducted due to a government shutdown and the resulting fiscal uncertainty and the lack of government appropriations.
The most recent ethics symposium was conducted in 2024. Click the links at right to find information about that symposium as well as previous years.
General Hugh Shelton Distinguished Visiting Chair of Ethics
The General Hugh Shelton Distinguished Visiting Chair of Ethics was established in November 2009 through a generous grant from Mr. Ross Perot through the Perot Foundation.
Dr. Paul David Miller, Ph.D., is a scholar and public servant devoted to ordered liberty at home and abroad. He is a political theorist and political scientist focusing on international affairs, the American experiment, and America’s role in the world. He is a Professor of the Practice of International Affairs at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. He serves as co-chair of the Global Politics and Security concentration in the Master of Science in Foreign Service program. He is also a non-resident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security.
As a practitioner, Dr. Miller served as Director for Afghanistan and Pakistan on the National Security Council staff; worked as an intelligence analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency; and served as a military intelligence officer in the U.S. Army.
His most recent book, The Religion of American Greatness: What’s Wrong With Christian Nationalism, was published by IVP Academic in 2022. He is also the author of Just War and Ordered Liberty (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and American Power and Liberal Order (Georgetown University Press, 2016). Miller taught at The University of Texas at Austin and the National Defense University and worked at the RAND Corporation prior to his arrival at Georgetown.
Miller’s writing has also appeared in Foreign Affairs, Survival, The Dispatch, Presidential Studies Quarterly, The Journal of Strategic Studies, Orbis, The American Interest, The National Interest, The World Affairs Journal, Small Wars and Insurgencies, and elsewhere. Miller holds a doctorate in international relations and a bachelor’s in government from Georgetown University, and a master in public policy from Harvard University.
Miller is a contributing editor of Providence: A Journal of Christianity and American Foreign Policy, a research fellow at the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, and a visiting professor with AEI’s Initiative on Faith and Public Life.
Dr. Miller is the fourth person to occupy the chair since its inception in 2009.
The first General Hugh Shelton Distinguished Visiting Chair of Ethics, Dr. John Mark Mattox (Col., U.S. Army, Ret.), was the first-ever privately funded academic chair in the history of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. Mattox served from Nov. 7, 2011 until Dec. 5, 2012. Dr. Daniel M. Bell, Jr. was the second chair and served from Dec. 5, 2012 through April 21, 2016. Dr. Shannon E. French served as the third chair from Feb. 1, 2017 until Feb. 1, 2025.The normal term for the chair is two years, however Dr. Bell’s exemplary service was rewarded with a second term extension.
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