USMA Exchange with National Defense University-Malaysia

LTC Ware and CPT Cosmas, faculty members from the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering, and four cadets participated in an academy exchange program at the Malaysian Military Academy.The trip served to build collaboration and partnership in support of the USARPAC Theater Security Cooperation Plan, USMA Strategic Objectives and the Integrated Country Strategy for the US Embassy in Kuala Lumpur. The trip was funded through the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership and its major aim was to share USMA best practices for leader development with NDUM through four mechanisms: 1) formal briefing of West Point Leader Development System at the institutional level, 2) presentation of USMA cadet experiences as they relate to leader development, 3) discussion of moral-ethical decision-making during USMA cadet-led Leader Challenge, and 4) informal conversations between USMA cadets and faculty with NDUM cadets and faculty.