Pentagon Revokes Approval for Officers to Speak at Aspen Security Forum (Connecting the Dots: The U.S. Department of Defense, The Aspen Institute, The Aspen Strategy Group, The Center for a New American Security & The Carnegie/Soros Network)
The
Pentagon revoked permission for a dozen officials to speak at the Aspen
Security Forum, accusing its organizer of not supporting DoD priorities.
The
Epoch Times
Andrew
Thornebrooke
National
Security Correspondent
7/16/2025|Updated:
7/16/2025
ASPEN,
Colo.—The Pentagon has prohibited its officers from speaking at a summit of
international security leaders, saying that the program would not support the
Trump administration’s agenda.
Chief
Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell announced that permission to speak at the
Aspen Security Forum was revoked for 12 military commanders on July 14, just
one day before the forum was slated to begin.
In a
statement shared with The Epoch Times, Parnell said that the Aspen
Institute’s values
“do not align with the values” of the Defense Department.
“The
Department will remain strong in its focus to increase the lethality of our
warfighters, revitalize the
warrior ethos, and project Peace Through Strength on the world stage,” Parnell
said. “It is clear the ASF is not in alignment with these goals.”
Pentagon press secretary Kingsley Wilson, in
a statement to Just the News, said the department has “no interest in
legitimizing an organization that has invited former officials who have been
the architects of chaos abroad and failure at home.”
Speakers this year include former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice,
Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov, European Defense Commissioner Andrius
Kubilius, and former U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan.
It is
unclear at this time if any actions by the Aspen Institute triggered the abrupt
pullout.
The
White House did not respond to a request for comment on whether the Pentagon
had consulted it in deciding to withdraw from the summit.
The
Aspen Institute describes itself as a nonpartisan think tank. Its strategy
group, which organizes the annual security forum, was founded in 1984 partly as
a means for top officials to hash out disagreements about then-President Ronald
Reagan’s military buildup and missile defense plans.
Its
annual forum was founded in 2010 as a means to bring together national security
and foreign policy leaders from around the world.
Twelve
military officials were slated to speak at the forum on a suite of pivotal
issues, such as confronting Chinese aggression in the Indo-Pacific and
containing conflict with Iran.
The
organization’s speaker roster still includes current officials from the State
Department and former officials from the prior Trump administration. They
include Adam Boehler, U.S. special envoy for hostage response, and Mark Esper,
who served as secretary of defense during President Donald Trump’s first term.
For its
part, the Aspen Institute said that it extended invitations to numerous senior
Trump administration officials, including several Cabinet-level leaders. The
Pentagon speakers had been approved to appear at the conference until July 14.
The
organization said in a statement shared with The Epoch Times that it would
continue to facilitate discussions of vital security issues and encourage a
diversity of viewpoints regardless of the political affiliations of those who
espouse them.
“For
more than a decade, the Aspen Security Forum has welcomed senior
officials—Republican and Democrat, civilian and military—as well as senior
foreign officials and experts, who bring experience and diverse perspectives on
matters of national security,” the statement reads.
“We
will miss the participation of the Pentagon, but our invitations remain open.”
Nicholas
Burns, who previously served as U.S. ambassador to China under the Biden
administration and now serves as co-chair of the Aspen
Strategy Group,
said that the forum’s doors would remain open to the Trump administration and
strategic discourse more broadly.
“Of
course, [the door is open] to our government, because our government was duly
elected, and we want them to succeed,” Burns said during his opening remarks on
July 15.
“Our
door is open this summer, next year, and every year, because that’s the
American way.”
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New American Security.
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