Military ethics and leadership

• Superior document: International Studies on Military Ethics ; v. 3
• TeilnehmendeR: Olsthoorn, Peter.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: International Studies on Military Ethics 3.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (319 pages)
• Notes: Includes index.
• Other title: Leadership, Ethics, and the Centrality of Character /; Armouring against Atrocity: Developing Ethical Strength in Small Military Units /; Ethical Leadership in the Military: The Gap between Theory and Practice in Ethics Education /; abca Coalition Operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and Beyond: Two Decades of Military Ethics Challenges and Leadership Responses1 /; Military Leaders, Fragmentation, and the Virtue of Integrity /; Military Integrity: Moral or Ethical? /; Soldiers’ Autonomy and Military Authority /; The Concept of Innere Führung: Dimensions of Its Ethics /; Intervening as a Moral Duty: Michael Walzer versus a Multilateralism Approach1 /; When International Dialogue about Military Ethics Confronts Diverse Cultural and Political Practices: ‘Guilt and Confession’ as a Case in Point /; Moral Judgement in War and Peacekeeping Operations: An Empirical Review* /; The Disenchantment of Victory and Ethical Dilemmas for Military Leadership: Sovereignty, the Spell of War and Elusiveness of Victory1 /; Special Operations Forces and Ethics: A Preliminary Assessment of the Leadership Challenge /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004339590
• Hierarchical level: Monograph

Most books and articles still treat leadership and ethics as related though separate phenomena. This edited volume is an exception to that rule, and explicitly treats leadership and ethics as a single domain. Clearly, ethics is an aspect of leadership, and not a distinct approach that exists alongside other approaches to leadership. This holds especially true for the for the military, as it is one of the few organizations that can legitimately use violence. Military leaders have to deal with personnel who have either used or experienced violence. This intertwinement of leadership and violence separates military leadership from leadership in other professions. Even in a time that leadership is increasingly questioned, it is still good leadership that keeps soldiers from crossing the thin line between legitimate force and excessive violence