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From Follett
Description based upon print version of record.;Cover; Military Virtues; Issues in Military Ethics; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on Contributors; Preface; Introduction; Military Virtues and Moral Relativism; Virtues or Values?; 1. Justice; Overview; Case Study 1: Doing a Deal with the Devil? Just Cause, David Richards and the Case of Op PALLISER; Case Study 2: Gender Equity as Fairness in the Military Institution; 2. Obedience; Overview; Case Study 1: Strategic Dissent in the Military; Case Study 2: Should Service Personnel Refuse to Fight in Unjust Wars?; 3. Loyalty; Overview;Case Study 1: Levels of Loyalty: Country, Service, Mission, TroopsCase Study 2: Good Loyalty and Bad Loyalty; 4. Courage; Overview; Case Study 1: Courage in an Age of Technology; Case Study 2: Moral Courage; 5. Wisdom; Overview; Case Study 1: Wisdom and Judgement; Case Study 2: Operational Wisdom: Aggressive Restraint in the Global War on Terror; 6. Honesty; Overview; Case Study 1: Honesty and Deceit in War; Case Study 2: Cannibals, Gun-deckers, and Good Idea Fairies: Structural Incentives to Deceive in the Military; 7. Integrity; Overview;Case Study 1: Integrity, Institutions, and the Banality of ComplicityCase Study 2: Getting Away with Murder? The Limits of Integrity; 8. Perseverance; Overview; Case Study 1: Perseverance, Leadership, and the 'We'; Case Study 2: Thinking Beyond the Past: Nudging the Pentagon Toward the 21st Century; 9. Temperance; Overview; Case Study 1: Temperance in Practice; Case Study 2: Unit Temperance and the Haditha Case; 10. Patience; Overview; Case Study 1: Patience; Case Study 2: Patience; 11. Humility; Overview; Case Study 1: Humility;Case Study 2: Humility: Lessons from the Context of Interrogation12. Compassion; Overview; Case Study 1: Compassion toward Enemies; Case Study 2: Compassion; 13. Discipline; Overview; Case Study 1: The Necessity of Self Control and the Perils of Anger; Case Study 2: Discipline of Violence; 14. Professionalism; Overview; Case Study: Professionalism; Conclusion; Index Military professionals need to have a clear and working knowledge of the ethical decision-making process. In the search for such clarity, this volume identifies 14 key virtues of the military professional and through introductory essays and real world examples, it provides guidance for service personnel at every stage of their career.
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Up until now, there has been no extant book focusing on military virtues aimed at professionals. Like personnel in other professional organizations, service personnel at every stage of their careers need a complement of virtues (excellent traits) in order to navigate the stress, decisions, and temptations they face. At a minimum, military professionals need to have a clear and working knowledge of the ethical decision-making process that underpin their profession in order to evaluate situations quickly. In the search for such clarity, this volume identifies 14 key virtues of the military professional and through introductory essays and real world examples of those virtues in practice, it provides guidance for service personnel at every stage of their career.