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Spiritual Readiness in the Military

SUMMARY: In this talk, Dr. Koenig will focus on concerns about the readiness of personnel in the Armed Forces of the U.S. and their allies, and review the mental health problems of those currently serving in the U.S. military. He will discuss the definition of spiritual readiness, and how to measure the spiritual readiness of military personnel. He will then describe nonreligious sources of spiritual readiness, including stoic philosophy, followed by a review of religious sources of spiritual readiness, including an examination of what spiritual readiness looks like in the Eastern, Indic, and Abrahamic faith traditions. He will discuss how warrior readiness is enhanced by human flourishing, and how religious involvement influences human flourishing thereby affecting warrior readiness. Finally, he will then discuss who is in charge of ensuring the spiritual readiness of our Armed Forces, discuss interventions to increase spiritual readiness, and emphasize the importance of fighting with honor in a just war in order to limit casualties due to moral injury that will later haunt combat personnel after they return to their communities and families. SPEAKER: Harold G. Koenig, MD, MHSc, completed his undergraduate education at Stanford University, medical school at University of California, San Francisco, and geriatric medicine, psychiatry, and biostatistics training at Duke University Medical Center. He is currently board certified in general psychiatry, and formerly boarded in family medicine, geriatric medicine, and geriatric psychiatry. Dr. Koenig serves as Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Associate Professor of Medicine at Duke University Medical Center; Adjunct Professor, Department of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; Adjunct Professor, School of Public Health, Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, China; and Visiting Professor, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran. Has nearly 600 scientific peer-reviewed academic publications, 100 book chapters, and more than 55 books in print or preparation. He has given testimony before the U.S. Senate (1998) and U.S. House of Representatives (2008) on the effects of religion on public health, and is recipient of the 2012 Oskar Pfister Award (American Psychiatric Association). Dr. Koenig is former editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine, and is currently Associate Editor of the Journal of Religion and Health. He is the lead author, with professors Tyler VanderWeele and John Peteet at Harvard Medical School, of the forthcoming 3rd edition of the Handbook of Religion and Health, and is lead author, with professors Lindsay Carey and Faten Al Zaben, of the recently completed book, Spiritual Readiness: Essentials for Military Leaders and Chaplains. Dr. Koenig co-led the recent 2022 Professional Development Training Course on spiritual readiness for combat operations involving over 1000 chaplains and religious program specialists in the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard.