Panel 1: The Military and Society What is the current state of relations between the military and society? How representative is the military of civil society? What effect is the War on Terrorism having on military-societal relations? Paper: John Allen Williams, Professor of Political Science, Loyola University, Chicago Commentators Thomas E. Ricks, Military Correspondent, Washington Post Elizabeth Stanley, Assistant Professor of Government, Georgetown University Moderator: Mackubin T. Owens, Naval War College and Senior Fellow, FPRI The opening panel at the Foreign Policy Research Institute's (FPRI) “Mind the Gap: Post-Iraq Civil-Military Relations in America" conference held at, and cosponsored with, the Reserve Officers Association in Washington, DC, on October 15, 2007.