Moral Obligation and the Military: Collected Essays - Softcover

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9789998307704: Moral Obligation and the Military: Collected Essays

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9998307708 ISBN 13: 9789998307704

Publisher: National Defense University Press, 1988

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of happiness, as enunciated in the Declaration of Independence and protected by the Constitution, are foremost among the ideals we cherish. When our government calls upon the Armed Services to use military force to defend our ideals, every soldier confronts an ethical or moral dilemma. This dilemma is the subject of this book. Few groups in American society are so keenly aware as the military of the price for resorting to warfare. Few groups so frequently examine the ethical and moral bases for their professional lives. This constant reexamination, though unsettling, is surely one sign of our nation's moral soundness. On behalf of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the National Defense University hosts an annual conference on professional ethics involving representatives of all the Armed Services and Departments of Government, as well as numerous private citizens. This volume includes the best papers offered at the pas two conferences. For the soldier, more so than the civilian, these topics are not theoretical, but real questions of moral obligation.

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