Finding "the right way"
Subtitle: toward an Army institutional ethic
By: Clark C. Barrett
Contributors: Army War College (U.S.). Strategic Studies Institute
Series: Carlisle papers; Carlisle papers
Publisher: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Carlisle, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9781584875499
Subjects: Vocational guidance; Military ethics; Corporate culture; Soldiers; Conduct of life; Professional ethics; Decision making; Armed Forces; Moral and ethical aspects; United States. Army; United States
Description: The ethical lapses exemplified by Abu Ghraib, Mahmudiyah (Blackhearts), and Maywand (5/2 Stryker) are distressing symptoms of an even bigger, and potentially devastating cultural shortcoming. The U.S. Army profession lacks an institutional ethical framework and a means of peer-to-peer self-governance. The frameworks the Army has may imply but they do not explicitly dictate an Army ethic. Other English-speaking nations' ethical constructs can inform the development of an Army Ethic which serves to protect our organizational and individual honor from moral and ethical lapses which do great harm to the institution, undermine the American public trust and hinder mission accomplishment. This study describes the problem, provides a review of literature, including current Army artifacts, partner nation military ethics, and necessary philosophical underpinnings. The study also addresses the importance of promulgation, non-toleration, and the necessity for the Army to act as a learning organization. Finally, the study supplies and justifies a proposed institutional and individual Army Ethic and means of promulgation, ethical decision-making and governance. The proposed Ethic replaces and integrates a number of disjointed and disconnected Army artifacts.
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"September 2012."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 44-64).
Table of contents: title: Review of recent U.S. Army ethical failures; title: Definitions; title: The relevance of ethics to military ends; title: The relevance of ethics to the American public; title: The relevance of ethics to the Army profession; title: Other professions and their ethics; title: Views opposed to an ethic; title: History of the Army ethic; title: Ethics in the current U.S. Army environment; title: Review of partner military ethics; title: Philosophical underpinnings of a U.S. Army ethic; title: Promulgation of a U.S. Army ethic; title: The importance of peer-to-peer self-governance; title: USMA honor code origins; title: The importance of non-toleration; title: Ethical decision-making; title: The U.S. Army as a learning organization; title: Articulating the U.S. Army institutional ethic; title: Recommendations; title: Conclusions.