About the Military Counter/Anticorruption Blog
Mission: Build awareness within the military of the corruption threat to military operations and ways to respond.
Problem: Corruption is prevalent around military operations because wartime conditions foster corruption. Whether personnel are involved as a participating wrongdoer, inadvertent participant, or not at all–corruption in the operational environment threatens host nation stability and security, interfering with the people of a host nation taking control of their own affairs and accepting the government as legitimate.
Solution: Combating corruption is difficult. There are few easy solutions. To be successful, the military must build a culture of integrity that promotes awareness of the problem and encourages personnel to speak up and act against corruption. Here is how to do it.
- Assess corruption risk.
- Lean more about corruption, and encourage others to as well.
- Enable leadership that opposes corruption.
- Obtain and organize help against corruption.
These recommended steps are loosely derived from programs that build integrity in a corporate setting. Corporate anticorruption programs align with government standards, such as:
- United States Sentencing Guidelines that govern corporate liability for criminal corruption; and
- Federal Acquisition Regulation 52.303-13 that provide requirements for government contractors.
Corporate programs that meet or surpass these standards serve as a model for how organizations can respond to corruption, and are thus instructional for what the military can do too.
