Educational Challenges Regarding Military Action

The essays presented in this issue provide an international overview of military-pedagogical thinking and acting. They reflect the sometimes close correspondence between the answers provided by military scholars to questions related to the content and function of military ethics and morale. These answers are so comprehensive as to suggest themselves as a starting point for further deliberations on military pedagogy but also in the fields of other applied pedagogic specialties. The authors who have contributed to this book make it clear, as a group, how the national defence of peace and freedom may be transformed into a pertinent international responsibility and competence for the safeguarding of world peace.

The Editors: Hubert Annen is head of Military Psychology and Military Pedagogy Studies at the Military Academy at ETH Zurich, and head of the Assessment Center for career officer candidates.
Wolfgang Royl is Professor (retired) at the University of the German Bundeswehr, Munich, and Dean for General Didactics at the Faculty of Education since 1976.