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The author questions whether the military can be expected to follow a set of moral precepts when the situations they face lie outside the ethical and legal rules of society. The aim of this book is to demonstrate that there is an uncodified military ethic.
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"A splendid discussion of the basic justification for the role of the military in American society."--David Johnson, professor of philosophy at the U.S. Naval Academy and civilian member of the Executive Board of the Joint Services Conference on Professional Ethics
About the Author
Col. Anthony E. Hartle is the professor of philosophy and a member of the permanent faculty at the United States Military Academy at West Point. He has served tours of duty in Okinawa, Korea, and Southeast Asia. As a member of an airborne unit in Vietnam he was wounded and decorated for valor. He also commanded an infantry battalion in the 101st Airborne Division. Hartle is a member of the Executive Board of the Joint Services Conference on Professional Ethics and served as a staff member of the 1986 Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident. He is the coeditor (with John Kekes) of Dimensions of Ethical Thought.
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