Military Virtues (eBook)

Michael Skerker (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
498 Seiten
Howgate Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-912440-10-8 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Autor

lt;p>Michael Skerker is an associate professor in the Leadership, Ethics, and Law Department at the U.S. Naval Academy. David Whetham is Professor of Ethics and the Military Profession in the Defence Studies Department of King’s College London, based at the UK’s Joint Services Command and Staff College where he coordinates or delivers the military ethics component of courses for between two and three thousand British and international officers a year. Don Carrick is a philosopher specialising in the field of applied ethics and currently teaches military medical ethics at the University of Leeds whilst working on a PhD thesis entitled ‘Teaching Ethics to the British Soldier’ at King’s College London.

 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.5.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Issues in Military Ethics
• Reihe/Serie: Issues in Military Ethics
• Verlagsort: Havant
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Berufs-/Gebührenrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Afghanistan • Aircraft • airland battle • aitken report • Alexander Blackman • Al-Qaeda • Ancient Greek • Aristotle • army rangers • Battleship • bravery • British Army • Chilcot Inquiry • Christian theology • CIA • Civil War • Clausewitz • Code of conduct • Cold War • Combatants • Compassion • Contractors • Courage • courageous restraint • courts martial • Cyber • Daesh • david richards • defence medical services • Deployment • detention • Discipline • dissent • drone • ethics • falklands • force multiplier • Generals • Geneva Convention • Groupthink • Gulf War • gun-de • gun-decking • Honesty • hugh thompson • humanitarian intervention • humility • Improvised Explosive Device • Insurgent • Intelligence • Iraq • Isis • john boyd • Justice • Just War • kinetictrageting • Landmine • Law of Armed Conflict • Leadership • leadeship • Loyalty • Marine Corps • Military • military chaplain • military culture • Military Ethics • Military operations • military training • Military Transformation • military warriors • moral injury • Morality • NATO • noncombatants • non-state actor • Obedience • Patience • Peacekeeping • Perseverance • Philosophy • Plato • post tra • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder • Professional training • profession of arms • reservists • richard dannatt • Royal Air Force • royal australian air force • Royal Marine • Rules of Engagement • Russia • Samuel Huntington • Seal • shannon clay • Socrates • strategic defence review • Sun Tzu • Taliban • Temperance • terrorism • the pentagon • three block war • Uniform Code of Military Justice • unmanned aerial vehicle • US Air Force • usarmy • use force • Use of force • Values • Vietnam • Virtues • War Crimes • william slim • Winston Churchill • wisdom • World War I • World War Two
• ISBN-10: 1-912440-10-5 / 1912440105
• ISBN-13: 978-1-912440-10-8 / 9781912440108