PHILADELPHIA -- Retired Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf will address the Republican National Convention next Tuesday from the battleship USS New Jersey.

Schwarzkopf is to join Sen. John McCain, both Bob and Elizabeth Dole and George W. Bush's international affairs adviser Condoleezza Rice in discussing the night's theme, national security.

The speakers will discuss military readiness and the morale of U.S. troops, convention co-chairman Andrew Card said Wednesday at a briefing outside the First Union Center. Bob Dole, who was badly wounded in World War II, will talk about the sacrifices and contributions made by veterans of that war, Card said.

Schwarzkopf, who was commander of U.S. and allied troops in the Persian Gulf War, will speak about military preparedness. For dramatic impact, he will be aboard the Iowa-class battleship that saw action in World War II, Korea, Vietnam and off the coast of Lebanon in 1983.

The 887-foot New Jersey is to be towed from the Philadelphia Naval Yard, where it was launched in 1942, to its new permanent home at a pier across the Delaware River in Camden, N.J.

Also in Tuesday's lineup is Vietnam War veteran Everett Alvarez Jr. of Rockville, Md., who will lead the pledge of allegiance. Alvarez was the first American pilot shot down over North Vietnam, in 1964 and spent more than eight years as a prisoner of war.

In an addition to Monday's lineup, New York GOP House candidate Joan Johnson will speak on education.

Johnson, who wants to become the first black Republican woman in Congress, jumped into the race for Rep. Rick Lazio's seat after he decided to challenge Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Senate.