Founding Values: Citizen Control with General H.R. McMaster

This event will feature a keynote lecture by General McMaster focused on the founding value of civilian control of the military. Following the lecture, a cadet-moderated conversation will take place, applying those lessons to today’s civil-military challenges, including political polarization, social-media pressures on apolitical service, the domestic use of forces, and the citizen-soldier ideal.

Organized in partnership with the School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership and the Department of Military Science.

Founding Values is an event series designed for ASU and the surrounding community to distance ourselves from partisan politics and reflect on the values represented in the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution.

The semiquincentennial, the 250th anniversary of the nation's founding, offers us a unique and timely opportunity to ask if we are upholding those values, and what we can do as a community to protect those values—if we think that they ought to be protected.

In response to a call for proposed sessions, the Lincoln Center received many timely and important proposals from faculty, students and community members. We are thrilled to be able to offer support for such a diverse set of sessions through the event series.

Founding Values will host seven events over three weeks: from April 13 to 28. The event series is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be provided. 

For more information about the event series, please visit: lincolncenter.asu.edu/founding-values.