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Ethical lapses and the military profession : three problems and a solution / Crosbie, Thomas

Crosbie, Thomas	Journal Article
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In a recent issue of this journal, we published an article titled “Fault Lines of the American Military Profession”. Donald S. Travis subsequently wrote a Dipustatio Sine Fine rejoinder that raised a number of criticisms of our piece and suggested several ways forward. For our part, we detect three serious problems in Travis’s analysis and offer a single syncretic response. Our solution builds on the insights of Travis’s critique while avoiding the pitfalls of his specific line of reasoning. We conclude by urging others to continue to debate and research these very consequential and timely issues.

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Domestic Politics ; Civil–Military Relations ; Expertise ; Military Profession ; Military Ethic

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Fault lines of the American military profession / Crosbie, Thomas

Crosbie, Thomas	Journal Article
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Over the past decade, the American armed services have witnessed a near-constant stream of so-called ethical lapses. Spanning rank, specialty, and service, these “lapses” have given rise to a flood of criticism by journalists and piercing calls for reform from politicians. In response, American military leaders have pointed to the paired concepts of profession and professionalism as the solution. In this article, we use classical conceptualizations of the military profession to resituate the problem of ethical lapses as instead one of the three fault lines of the contemporary American military profession, unfolding alongside crises in military expertise and identity. The three fault lines reveal at once the large scale of the challenges facing the American armed services and our very limited social scientific understanding of those problems. We end by emphasizing the need for future research to establish an updated empirical baseline for theories of the military profession in America.

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Domestic Politics ; Civil–Military Relations ; Expertise ; Military Profession ; Military Ethic

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Value system and code of conduct for the armed forces / Singh, Neeraj

Singh, Neeraj	Journal Article
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Armed Forces ; International Security ; Code of Conduct ; Value System ; Military Ethic

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