Rear Adm. Peg Klein, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel’s senior advisor for military professionalism, said the Air Force Academy is taking great steps to improve military training ethics with the recent changes announced by academy superintendent Lt. Gen. Michelle Johnson. Klein said in an interview with Colorado’s The Gazette following her speech at the Military Reporters and Editors Conference in Washington, D.C., the changes in the Air Force are “good things” that “aren’t being absorbed by our sister services.” Commanders, she said, “see themselves as only responsible to history,” and so they are less attentive to concerns of ethics. A key first step is making sure young officers and cadets “know how to police themselves,” Klein said. “I owe them some good ways to do that.” Also of importance is promoting a sense of institutional pride and loyalty among cadets that will help hold them accountable. (See also DOD Seeks to Purge Toxic and Unethical Leaders.)
DNI: Cyber Is The Common Weapon Among Top Adversaries
April 17, 2021
The top four U.S. adversaries—China, Russia, Iran and North Korea—are improving their military capabilities but relying increasingly on cyber means to challenge the U.S. and blunt its influence around the world, the intelligence community's annual threat assessment says. The report comes amid military tensions with both China and Russia.