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/