Army General Matthew Ridgway’s actions throughout his career provide a valuable example of the appropriate time and place for serious dissent by military leaders. Ridgway demonstrated the importance of selectively and pragmatically expressing open disagreement in response to operational decisions a military leader deems unnecessarily risk American lives and economic resources.

Read the original article, “Matthew Ridgway and the Value of Persistent Dissent“, by Dr. Conrad C. Crane: https://press.armywarcollege.edu/parameters/vol51/iss2/3/

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