Suchergebnisse

Leadership, ethics, and the centrality of character / Peter Olsthoorn -- Armouring against atrocity: developing ethical strength in small military units / Tom McDermott and Stephen Hart -- Ethical leadership in the military: the gap between theory and -- Practice in ethics education / Miriam C. de Graaff, Peter W. de Vries, Walter J. van Bijlevelt and Ellen Giebels -- ABCA coalition operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and beyond: two decades of military ethics challenges and leadership responses / David Whetham -- Military leaders, fragmentation, and the virtue of integrity / Nathan L. Cartagena and Michael D. Beaty -- Military integrity: moral or ethical? / Patrick Mileham -- Soldiers' autonomy and military authority / Mihaly Boda -- The concept of innere Fuhrung: dimensions of its ethics / Angelika Dorfler-Dierken -- Intervening as a moral duty: Michael Walzer versus a multilateralism approach / Arseniy Kumankov -- When international dialogue about military ethics confronts diverse cultural and political practices: 'guilt and confession' as a case in point / George R. Wilkes

This book examines the role of military virtues in today's armed forces. Although long-established military virtues, such as honor, courage and loyalty, are what most armed forces today still use as guiding principles in an effort to enhance the moral behavior of soldiers, much depends on whether the military virtues adhered to by these militaries suit a particular mission or military operation. Clearly, the beneficiaries of these military virtues are the soldiers themselves, fellow-soldiers, and military organizations, yet there is little that regulates the behavior of soldiers towards civilian populations. As a result, troops trained for combat in today's missions sometimes experience difficulty in adjusting to the less aggressive ways of working needed to win the hearts and minds of local populations after major combat is over. It can be argued that today's missions call for virtues that are more inclusive than the traditional ones, which are mainly about enhancing military effectiveness, but a convincing case can be made that a lot can already be won by interpreting these traditional virtues in different ways. -- Publisher description.