Military Virtues (1) (Issues in Military Ethics) [Illustrated] 9781912440009, 9781912440016, 9781912440108, 1912440008
Up until now, there has been no extant book focusing on military virtues aimed at professionals. Like personnel in othe
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Table of contents :
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, Troops
Case 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 Complicity
Case 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 Interrogation
12. 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
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, Troops
Case 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 Complicity
Case 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 Interrogation
12. 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
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