Governing the United States Army and its procedures are ethics. Ethical values are the principles of human moral conduct, which establishes what is to be the good or the right thing to do. In today's Army, we face both professional and ethical...
Even though a country can win nearly every battle during a conflict, they can still lose the war for unpopular intelligence gathering techniques. This paper will look at a past example of how these techniques can play a critical part in determining...
Since the change in the Department of Defense (DOD) Policy in 1993 on homosexuals serving in the Armed Forces the Army has faced numerous ethical challenges. With the conception of the Army Values in 1998 the Army has struggled to instill all of...
America's credentials around the world is our ability to be ethical. America's actions are watched, observed and reported and, when American Soldiers fail to be ethical, American Soldiers become no different than the foe we are fighting. Murder of...
Learning to leverage new media: the Israeli defense forces in recent conflicts. Lieutenant General William B. Caldwell IV, U.S. Army; Mr. Dennis M. Murphy; and Mr. Anton Menning; The Army must learn to embrace lessons from the explosion of...
Ethics is the essential element of success. It begins with our parents teaching us right from wrong. At times, we find ourselves in a dilemma over our ethics with others. Ethics are hard to understand because each person has their own...
The purpose of this paper is to give my personal opinion on the responsibilities of a leader when confronted with ethical dilemmas involving standards of conduct. This paper will provide an overview of certain incidents that I have been involved...
It was once said, if you fail to learn from history then you are doomed to repeat it (original
author unknown). The failure of The U.S. Government to maintain and continue Special Forces
small group insurgent teams from the American/Philippine War,...
The Department of Defense must do more to prevent the unethical behavior of its forces in Combat. The things we ask our fighting men and women to do sometimes place them in direct conflict with their personal values and beliefs. One of those...
Can the United States Army continue to be the premier fighting force in the world with homosexuals openly serving in its ranks? This issue has been hotly debated since the new homosexual conduct policy went into effect. Although this is not the...
We have in the military what we like to call the "CNN Effect", in other worlds everything we do could potentially end up on the evening news. We cannot allow our subordinates or our senior leadership to be the lead story on the evening news or the...
When we want to know what are the ethical problems in the Army today we should look to the young privates especially ones that are new citizens. Our young Soldiers are very educated today and tend to ask the why question more and more. They are...
In the last few years, as an institution, the US Army has suffered under the strain as its Soldiers experience multiple deployments in support of the Global War on Terrorism. The pressure to maintain unit readiness in order to meet operational...
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Essayons, originally published as the Fort Leonard Wood Guidon in 1966 then as the Guidon from 1966 to 1987. Became Essayons in 1988 and remained that way until 1999 when it reverted back to Guidon. It has been and continues to be a record of...
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Guidon came into being as a weekly publication in 1966 under the title Fort Leonard Wood Guidon. Between 1966 and 1987 the title was simplified to Guidon before becoming Essayons in 1988. The name reverted back to Guidon in 1999. It has been...
The United States Navy has always considered combating piracy a mission and responsibility under international law and tradition. Recently, the importance of this mission has increased markedly. There are two reasons for this. First, the increase...
The U.S. Army has directed that its entire force must be capable of conducting what it terms Full Spectrum Operations, which is being able to conduct offensive, defensive, stability, and/or civil support operations, simultaneously in the 21st...
The Islamic Republic of Iran poses a significant threat to stability in the Middle East. Iran's nuclear program, inflammatory rhetoric, and support to militias challenge peace efforts throughout the region. America now seeks normalized relations...
Is there a gender component in toxic leadership? Existing conceptions of toxic leadership fail to account for gender. The real world significance of these conceptions is that female leaders labeled with the pejorative of being toxic leaders suffer...