Up until now, there has been no extant book focusing on military virtues aimed at professionals. Like personnel in other professional organizations, service personnel at every stage of their careers need a complement of virtues (excellent traits) in order to navigate the stress, decisions, and temptations they face.
At a minimum, military professionals need to have a clear and working knowledge of the ethical decision-making process that underpin their profession in order to evaluate situations quickly. In the search for such clarity, this volume identifies 14 key virtues of the military professional and through introductory essays and real world examples of those virtues in practice, it provides guidance for service personnel at every stage of their career.
A propos de l’auteur
Michael Skerker is a Professor in the Leadership, Ethics, and Law department at the U.S. Naval Academy. His research focuses on police, military, and intelligence ethics. Publications include articles and chapters on ethics and asymmetrical war, collective responsibility, police ethics, intelligence ethics, interrogation/torture, and the book An Ethics of Interrogation (University of Chicago Press, 2010). His most recent book The Moral Status of Combatants: A New Theory of Just War (Routledge, 2020) explores the moral status of combatants fighting in unjust wars. Prof. Skerker is also the co-editor of Sovereignty and the New Executive Authority (Oxford University Press, 2019) and Military Virtues (Howgate Publishing, 2019). Prof. Skerker is on the advisory board of the High Value Detainee Interrogation Group and consults with businesses, law enforcement, and the military.Plus d’ebooks du même auteur(s) / Éditeur
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