Where Are We? Finding a Start Point on the Ethical Map

Abstract

How are mid-career U.S. military professionals postured ethically to think about non-combatants given pervasive ethical heterogeneity? The literature on professional military ethics education (PMEE) fails to suitably address this question. It encompasses a number of contrasting ways to teach ethics, but they each presuppose an ethical start point, which is unknown, and really, neglected. These shortcomings become evident with respect to an individual officer's ethically constitutive beliefs, their military's professional ethics, the world's heterogeneity, and the obligations they have toward non-combatants. I conduct a two-part methodology. I first survey mid-career military professionals on their attitudes towards non-combatants. This survey will serve as the backdrop for my theorization of the nexus, implicit but inadequately developed in existing PMEE conceptions.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 13, 2013
Accession Number
ADA599084

Entities

People

  • Christopher M. Ellis

Organizations

  • United States Army Command and General Staff College

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems

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  • Air Force
  • Doctrine
  • Education
  • Instructors
  • Iraqi-War
  • Medical Personnel
  • Military Education
  • Military Organizations
  • Military Personnel
  • Military Science
  • Personality
  • Religion
  • Service Academies
  • Students
  • United States
  • Urban Areas
  • Warfare

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  • Military Leadership and Professional Education.
  • Strategic Security Studies
  • Theoretical Analysis.