A Soldier's Morality, Religion, And Our Professional Ethic: Does The Army's Culture Facilitate Integration, Character Development, And Trust In The Profession?

This monograph is the 6th in the Professional Military Ethics Series; it addresses an issue about which little has been written. It intentionally plows new and difficult ground. The larger issue it addresses is the cultures of the military professions which currently serve our Republic and the role of the Stewards of the Profession in the evolution of those cultures, in particular their moral and ethical core. Since our Armed Forces exist as military professions only by the trust they earn from the society they serve and the trust they engender among professionals who voluntarily serve within them, this issue is of no small import. If the Stewards are unable to lead the professions such that both the external and internal trust relationships are maintained, then the military institution reverts to its alternative organizational character of a big, lumbering government bureaucracy. Since there is no historical record that such government bureaucracies...

• • Author: Don M. Snider, Alexander P. Shine, Strategic Studies Institute
• • Publisher: Lulu.Com
• • Publication Date: Jun 14, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 51 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1312277793
• • ISBN-13: 9781312277793