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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Section I: Overview: Legacies and New Challenges -- Chapter 1: What Should We Mean by "Military Ethics"? -- Chapter 2: Reflections on the Stockdale Legacy -- Chapter 3: The Day the World Changed? Reflections on 9/11 and U.S. National Security Strategy -- Section II: Civil-Military Relations -- Chapter 4: The Revolt of the Generals: A Case Study in Professional Ethics -- Chapter 5: U.S. Civil Military Relations since 9/11: Issues in Ethics and Policy Development -- Section III: Ethics Education in the Military -- Chapter 6: Teaching Military Ethics in the U.S. Air Force: Challenges Posed by Service Culture -- Chapter 7: Professional Military Ethics across the Career Spectrum -- Chapter 8: Thucydides as a Resource for Teaching Ethics and Leadership in Military Education Environments -- Section IV: Religion in the U.S. Military -- Chapter 9: Is Just War Spirituality Possible? -- Chapter 10: Christianity and Weapons of Mass Destruction -- Chapter 11: Evangelical Christianity in the U.S. Military -- Chapter 12: Diagnosing a Loss of Religious Diversity in the U.S. Military -- Chapter 13: Whether (Modern, American) Soldiers, Too, Can Be Saved -- Chapter 14: A Force for (Relative) Good: An Augustinian Perspective -- Section V: Ethical Issues in War -- Chapter 15: Michael Walzer's Concept of "Supreme Emergency" -- Chapter 16: Asymmetric Air War: Ethical Implications -- Chapter 17: Ethical Dilemmas in the Use of Airpower in Counterinsurgency War -- Notes -- Index.

Stephen Peter Rosen is Michael Kaneb Professor of National Security and Military Affairs at Harvard University. In this ambitious volume he attempts to counter the view that economic- rationality models of human behavior adequately explain human decision making. He defines economic rational- ity as the assumption that people "have a stable, ordered, and consistent set of preferences and that they have a stable way of making choices about how to use scarce resources in a manner that gives them the most utility for a given expenditure of resources." Rosen at- tempts to demonstrate the inadequacy of economic rationality to explain or predict human behavior by drawing on a wide range of empirical research.

In Thoughts of a Philosophical Fighter Pilot, his collection of reflective essays published long after his time in Vietnam, Vice Admiral James Bond Stockdale writes eloquently about the importance of the study of philosophy in helping him to endure the prisoner of war (POW) experience. While at Stanford completing a degree in economics, he found his most important questions being deflected by the economics faculty, often with the remark, "Well, we're getting into philosophy now." Exasperated by that reaction, Stockdale found his way to the Philosophy Department and embarked on a course of reading in the subject, guided by Pro- fessor Philip H. Rhinelander.