Women have served in every war from the Revolutionary War to Operations Iraqi and Enduring Freedom. For centuries, women have been demanding equal rights and the equal opportunity to ~ork in, and advance in, all different types jobs open to men,...
With the growing unpopularity of the war in Iraq, Americans are once again discussing the draft. Congressman Charles Rangel has argued that we need the draft to fill the ranks or force disengagement from Iraq and prevent entry into unnecessary...
With the exception of the commander, no position in the U.S. Army faces more potential ethical dilemmas than that of a first sergeant. While the commander makes policy, the first sergeant enforces policy. Since most policies are based on Army law...
With the better part of the free world fixated on the War on Terror I believe there are many "ethical problem facing the Army today." The one that concerns me the most is that of putting our junior soldiers in positions that they are unprepared...
William Bainbridge Ethics Papers:
In 1994 the commandant of the Sergeants Major Academy, Col Fredrick Van Horn created the William E. Bainbridge Chair of Ethics in the Sergeants Major Course. In reality this amounted to the introduction of a...
When we are having difficulty in defining our actions as right or wrong, that is an ethical dilemma. Ethical dilemmas happen when individuals do not understand or ignore where their ethical responsibility lies.
Located in the dictionary between...
When we are having difficulty in defining our actions as right or wrong, that is an ethical dilemma. Ethical dilemmas happen when individuals do not understand or ignore where their ethical responsibility lies.
Located in the dictionary between...
When the why is strong enough, the how will be found, torture of terrorist suspects is against the Geneva Convention and could ultimately increase terrorism attacks. Article 2 of the Geneva Convention says; "no exceptional circumstances whatsoever,...
When Soldiers deploy to a combat zone the combatant commander must take additional steps to ensure that conduct does not become an issue with the “host” nation. General Order 1 is the means to that end. For the individual Soldier this means...
When dealing with the issue of ethical decision-making, the fear of public scrutiny can often lead to the downfall of many organizations and individuals. Information can be sent around the world today with the push of a button. World events now...
What is the right thing to do in an ethical situation? Ethics is nothing more than looking at a problem, determine if it's wrong, and then making the right decision based on our values. Ethics comes from our own childhood background. The army...
What is it about the question, “why should we study military history” that raises suck a storm of conversation? In a society that expects education to serve a useful purpose, the functions of history can appear more difficult to define than...
What is it about the question, “why should we study military history” that raises such a storm of conversation? In a society that expects education to serve a useful purpose, the functions of history can appear more difficult to define than...
What caused the agricultural manpower shortage in World War II? Historians have proffered a variety of explanations that attribute linear causality to a handful of independent variables. No scholar, however, has attempted to study the manpower...
Webster's Encyclopedia Dictionary of the English Language defines "war" as "armed conflict between nations, tribes or other groups." The same dictionary defines "terrorism" as "the policy of using acts of inspiring terror as a method of ruling or...
We as senior NCOs must exemplify ethical conduct to be effective and credible in our profession, but living by a code of ethics is not always easy. Many people are tempted to behave unethically because sometimes it is the path of least resistance....
We as leaders need to be vigilant to plagiarism. It is very possible that some of us will be in positions to implement changes in the NCOES system, to improve the writing skills of junior enlisted, teach them the rules of plagiarism.
We are often placed in difficult situation in which dilemmas are suddenly placed in our pathway. Oftentimes a decision needs must be rendered about the outcome and the punishment if there are consequences. Personal problems seem to be one of the...
We all should advocate and enforce a strong and ethical environment on and off duty and encourage our Soldiers to always take the "hard" right over the easy wrong. We can make a major impact on our Soldiers by over seeing that they receive the...
War, diplomacy and economic sanctions are three cornerstones of strategy that have, in the past, successfully coerced rogue regimes to capitulate. However, it may be time to look beyond these persuasion techniques and develop a new method that can...