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.
About the author
Jessica Wolfendale is Professor of Philosophy at Marquette University. Prior to her current position, she was Associate Professor of Philosophy at West Virginia University. Her most recent book is War Crimes: Causes, Excuses, and Blame (with Matthew Talbert), forthcoming. In addition, she is author of Torture and the Military Profession (2007), co-editor of New Wars and New Soldiers: Military Ethics in the Contemporary World (2011), and has published numerous articles and book chapters on topics including security, torture, terrorism, bioethics, and military ethics. Her work has appeared in journals including Ethics and International Affairs, Journal of Political Philosophy, American Journal of Bioethics, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, and the Journal of Military Ethics.111,894 Ebooks in this category
