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Spring 2007
Richard Swain |
Reflection on an Ethic of Officership Reminder that America's Army has operated for over 200 years without an officer's creed to govern the actions of its leaders.   |
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Autumn 2004
Sergio Catignani |
Motivating Soldiers: The Example of the Israeli Defense Forces Combat motivation is a key factor in enabling conventional armies to win conflicts; in Israel's case, it has been referred to as the `secret weapon' of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). |
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Winter 2005/2006 |
Book Reviews The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War by Andrew J. Bacevich... 1776 by David McCullough... West Point: Two Centuries and Beyond edited by Lance Betros... What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation Building by Noah Feldman... etc. |
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Autumn 2007 |
Book Reviews Kimberly Kagan in The Eye of Command proposes that John Keegan's Face of Battle approach to narrating battles suffers fatal flaws... War Made New by Max Boot examines 500 years of military innovation... etc. |
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Winter 2003/2004
Richard D. Hooker, Jr. |
Soldiers of the State: Reconsidering American Civil-Military Relations Far from overstepping its bounds, America's military operates comfortably within constitutional notions of separated powers, participating appropriately in defense and national security policymaking with due deference to the principle of civilian control. |
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Spring 2004 |
Book Reviews A book review of Beyond Baghdad. |
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Winter 2005/2006
George R. Mastroianni |
Occupations, Cultures, and Leadership in the Army and Air Force The relatively recent separation of the Air Force from the Army, coupled with the rapid rise of the Air Force as a powerful, independent institution offers a unique opportunity to explore the organizational cultures of these two services, and to better understand the implications of culture on leadership styles in each of the services. |
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Spring 2005 |
Book Reviews Abandoning Vietnam: How America Left and South Vietnam Lost Its War....The Moral Warrior: Ethics and Service in the U.S.... etc. |
National Defense
April 2014
Sandra I. Erwin |
Military Ethics Lapses: Is There a Crisis of Character? Following a string of scandals in the military ranks, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is looking to appoint a senior officer to ensure that "moral character" is given higher priority across all activities. |
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Summer 2004 |
Commentary & Reply Embedding: More Background... Can Reading Clausewitz Save Us?... Civil-Military Relations at the Top... etc. |
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Autumn 2004
Joseph R. Nunez |
Canada's Global Role: A Strategic Assessment of its Military Power Formally joining Northern Command, just as Canada did with NORAD, would confirm that the relationship between Canada and the United States is a model of liberal interdependency suitable for emulation. |
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Autumn 2006
Michael R. Melillo |
Outfitting a Big-War Military with Small-War Capabilities Unfortunately, it took the tragedy of 9/11 and the challenges posed by an adaptive enemy for the U.S. to realize it was not prepared to fight war on terms other than its own choosing. |
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Summer 2007 |
Book Reviews Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965 by Mark Moyar offers fresh insights on the war... Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945 by Catherine Merridale is social history at it's best... etc. |
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Autumn 2007
Gregory L. Cantwell |
Nation-Building: A Joint Enterprise When America's Army is at war, is the nation also at war? |
National Defense
November 2004
Joe Reeder |
Association Unveils New Ethics Code for Industry The National Defense Industrial Association's Ethics Committee has developed a benchmark statement of industry ethics for companies to incorporate into their day-to-day business. |
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Autum 2008 |
Book Reviews Looking for Trouble by Ralph Peters tales of his odyssey through a decaying Union of Soviet Socialist Republics... Elizabeth Samet writes about teaching English at a military institution in her latest book Soldier's Heart... etc. |
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Winter 2006/2007 |
Commentary & Reply Beware of Boldness... The Most Professional Military... etc. |
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November 2004 |
Book Reviews Surprise, Security and the American Experience... Arguing About War... The Regulars: The American Army 1898-1941... etc. |
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Autumn 2007
John Loran Kiel, Jr. |
When Soldiers Speak Out: A Survey of Provisions Limiting Freedom of Speech in the Military As service members become more vocal about the war, commanders need to become more familiar with how freedom of speech is applied in a military context. |
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Autumn 2004 |
Book Reviews In the Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat. By Rick Atkinson... America's Inadvertent Empire. By William E. Odom and Robert Dujarric... The Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet. By James Mann... The Iraq War. By John Keegan... etc. |
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Spring 2006 |
Book Reviews Soldiering: Observations from Korea, Vietnam, and Safe Places. By Henry G. Gole... New Glory: Expanding America's Global Supremacy. By Ralph Peters... Sands of Empire: Missionary Zeal, American Foreign Policy, and the Hazards of Global Ambition. By Robert W. Merry... etc. |
National Defense
December 2004
Lawrence P. Farrell, Jr. |
'Ethical Readiness' Mandatory for Defense Industry With respect to the latest ethics-related events, the industry needs to come to grips with what went wrong and, joining with government, reclaim the ethical high ground. |
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Summer 2006 |
Book Reviews Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis. By Jimmy Carter... State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century. By Francis Fukuyama... Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-1945. By Max Hastings... etc. |
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Summer 2005
R. D. Hooker |
Beyond Vom Kriege: The Character and Conduct of Modern War While the methods used to wage war are constantly evolving, the nature and character of war remain deeply and unchangeably rooted in the nature of man. |
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November 2004
Franklin Eric Wester |
Preemption and Just War: Considering the Case of Iraq This article demonstrates that the use of military force by the Bush Administration against the regime of Saddam Hussein does not meet the ethical criteria for "preemptive war" set forth in the classical Just War tradition. |
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Winter 2003/2004 |
Book Reviews Reconstructing Eden: A Comprehensive Plan for the Post-War Political and Economic Development of Iraq... The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad... Defense's Nuclear Agency, 1947-1997... Diem's Final Failure: Prelude to America's War in Vietnam... etc. |
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Summer 2005 |
Book Reviews Vietnam Chronicles: The Abrams Tapes, 1968-1972... Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror... Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism... etc. |
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Autumn 2005 |
Book Reviews The Sling and the Stone: On War in the 21st Century. By Thomas X. Hammes... Who Killed the Canadian Military? By J. L. Granatstein... A War of a Different Kind: Military Force and America's Search for Homeland Security. By Stephen M. Duncan... etc. |
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Autumn 2007
Marc Lindemann |
Civilian Contractors under Military Law The insertion of five words into Congress's fiscal year 2007 defense authorization act may now subject every civilian contractor operating in a combat zone to the discipline of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). |
National Defense
June 2014 |
Readers Sound Off on Recent Stories Readers comment on stories dealing with military ethics, acquisition reform, and Navy ship controversies. |
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Spring 2007 |
Book Reviews The new book, Fiasco, wastes no time in cutting a wide swath through Washington and Baghdad in this critique on the war in Iraq... State of Denial is the third book by Bob Woodward on the war in Iraq... etc. |
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Summer 2007
Eric Wester |
Last Resort and Preemption: Using Armed Force as a Moral and Penultimate Choice Using armed force in peace enforcement operations (PEO) need not be reserved for a Last Resort even while preserving the integrity of Just War theory. |
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Autumn 2008
Steven L. Schooner |
Why Contractor Fatalities Matter Apprising the American public that the true human cost associated with military operations includes contractors and exceeds 6,000 is critical to making informed decisions for the future. |
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Summer 2008
Robert Gates |
Reflections on Leadership Partners in Command, a book by Mark Perry, is an account of the unique relationship between General Dwight D. Eisenhower and General George Marshall, and how they played a significant role in the American victory in World War II. |
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Autumn 2004
Michael O'Hanlon |
The Need to Increase the Size of the Deployable Army The possibility exists that large numbers of active-duty troops and reservists may soon leave the service rather than subjecting themselves to a life continually on the road. The seriousness of the worry cannot be easily established. |
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Autumn 2006
Liotta & Owen |
Sense and Symbolism: Europe Takes On Human Security A European culture with dubious historical reputation for cosmopolitanism is being thrust upon the global stage at the very moment when its geopolitical concepts are poised on the precipice of desuetude. |
National Defense
December 2009
Austin Wright |
Army Leaders Prepare for War, Peace and Everything In Between The military is transitioning from a group of one-track warriors to a force of multitaskers who can advise, assist and attack. |
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Summer 2005
Pierre Lessard |
Campaign Design for Winning the War . . . and the Peace The current Western interpretation of campaign design must reunite with its strategic roots of ends and means in its quest to seek ways of winning both the war and the peace in the post-9/11 era. |
National Defense
March 2011 |
Statement of Defense Industry Ethics In November 2004, after several months of in-depth review the National Defense Industrial Association finalized and published its Code of Ethics. Five years later in 2009, NDIA undertook to review, and, in a small number of ways made minor but we believe worthy revisions. |
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Winter 2005/2006
Mitchell J. Thompson |
Breaking the Proconsulate: A New Design for National Power There have been few truly transformational changes to the institutions of national security, only slight modifications to the existing ones. |
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Spring 2005
George H. Quester |
Demographic Trends and Military Recruitment: Surprising Possibilities This article will attempt to project current demographic trends in the United States and abroad, along with several related determinants, a substantial distance into the future, so as to explore some possibly surprising implications for the recruitment of armed forces |
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Spring 2005
Kenneth Payne |
The Media as an Instrument of War The media, in the modern era, are indisputably an instrument of war. This is because winning modern wars is as much dependent on carrying domestic and international public opinion as it is on defeating the enemy on the battlefield. |
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Autumn 2008
Mark Cancian |
Contractors: The New Element of Military Force Structure The purpose of this article is to examine what battlefield contractors do, consider how we got to the situation we are in today, and provide force planners with some useful insight regarding the future. |
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Autumn 2004
George Reed et al. |
Mapping the Route of Leadership Education: Caution Ahead A networked approach to joint leadership development can lead to multiple perspectives of leadership more appropriate to a rapidly changing environment and one more worthy of the military profession. |
National Defense
August 2013
Patti Ellis |
Corporate Ethics Education Yields Rewards Raytheon produces a popular video mini-series each quarter, called "EthicSpace" that, like the Checkpoint program and FCPA Aware, is based on actual case experiences meant to prompt conversation. |
AFP eWire
April 7, 2014
Pena & Eustace |
Ethics Is Not A Game Of Jeopardy At the recent AFP International Conference in San Antonio, we turned ethical issues into a fun, and noisy game of Jeopardy and we had a full house. |
National Defense
May 2006
Perry & Flournoy |
The U.S. Military: Under Strain And at Risk In the current debate over the nation's defense strategy and spending priorities, many have forgotten that the ground forces are under enormous strain. This strain, if not soon relieved, will have highly corrosive effects on the force. |
Reason
February 2002
Chris Bray |
The Media and GI Joe How the press gets the military wrong -- and why it matters... |
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Summer 2007
Patrick Porter |
Good Anthropology, Bad History: The Cultural Turn in Studying War To wage war, become an anthropologist. Today's military confrontation of "the West vs. the rest" replays ancient differences between strategic cultures. |
CIO
April 15, 2002
Stephanie Overby |
Leadership Lessons from the Modern Military Military methods hold unexpected how-tos for corporate CIOs... |
